How did the US come into possession of Hawaii?

Question

Could Canada borrow it until April? Pretty please?

Answer 1

Unfortunately, no, Canada cannot borrow it.

Hawaii was independent until the US basically took it over in a coup by American fruit plantation owners. The Queen of the Hawaiian islands, Liliuokalani, had started making noise about the disenfranchisement of the Native Hawaiians, who had been denied the right to vote if they didn't own land, and the increasing power of the American businessmen, who worked to gain political power and also imported laborers rather than use Native Hawaiians, and Hawaiians in fact became the minority majority on their own islands. In 1893, after Queen Lil started that talk, the fruit planation owners got Marines to come from the USS Boston, and trapped her in the palace until she abdicated. Sanford Dole (the pineapple guy) ended up as provisional governor, and the US annexed the islands in 1898 under president Mckinley.

Answer 2

Canada borrows Florida every year and now you want Hawaii too!

Okay, 'cause we loves our Canadians!

The US pretty much stole Hawaii from the Native Hawaiians anyway

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaii

Answer 3

by stealing it