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It began it evolution to Statehood in 1959 as a group of feudal islands under the leadership of a variety of Chiefs that was unified by Kamehameha the Great in 1810 as the Kingdom of Hawaii. The Monarchy was overthrown and the Hawaian Islands became a Republic controlled by wealthy American Plantation owners and eventually it became the Territory of Hawaii in 1898.

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