Annexationists in Hawai'i plotted the 1893 overthrow of the Hawaiian government for which of the following reasons?
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
a
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