When Western presence commenced to escalate in Hawaii, it would ultimately lead to the collapse of its monarchy and annexation to the U.S. Its downfall most likely initiated when growing amounts of Western Christian missionaries began to populate the islands of Hawaii’s. This was mostly caused by the U.S.’s slow expansion into the Pacific and Latin America. The initial purpose of these missionaries was to spread the Christian faith, which they succeeded in. However, they would provide the foundation for the collapse of Hawaii’s kingdom. These missionaries did more than what they were expected to do. For instance, they provided education for the ali’i, the monarch’s children, that would teach them standards of Western style living, such as the
