They did, yes. Have you ever looked into how they got there? The Republic of Hawaii, founded at the very end of the 19th century led to annexation by the Unite

They did, yes. Have you ever looked into how they got there? The Republic of Hawaii, founded at the very end of the 19th century led to annexation by the United States (one since admitted to and apologized for, as it happens) and it wasn't until the fifties that largely non-native plantation owners were sufficiently pushed back to have those little things like "democracy" actually mean much of anything. Outside of this specific example, the Scramble for Africa is generally not considered to have ended until 1914, with the results of it and similar Middle Eastern colonial efforts not really shaking out until after the Second World War.