What is a reason that annexationists plotted the 1893 overthrow of the Hawaiian government?
A. To avoid paying the new American tariff on Hawaiian sugar imported into the United States
B. To provoke a war between the United States and Japan
C. To place Queen Liliuokalani in power
D. To keep more Chinese and Japanese from migrating to Hawai'i
Answer: A
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