how was Hawaii acquired by U.S.?

Question

do you know how was Hawaii acquired by U.S?

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please explain as detail as possible

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Answer 1

It was annexed by the United States in 1898, became a territory in 1900, and has been a state since 1959.

Answer 2

Hawaii was annexed to the U.S. by the Newlands Resolution of 1898. This was a United States Government resolution, not an act of cession by the annexed country, and its legality is still in dispute. It's as if the United states said to Mexico,'
"O.K., dudes, our Congress has resolved to annex you." The assumption was that the peaceful Hawaiians would not fight back.

Answer 3

In 1898 American businessmen tried to bring Hawaii under U.S control by engineering the overthrow of Hawaii's last Queen LILI'UOKALANI. By bringing Hawaii under U.S control, it would remove the trade barriers and protectionist policies of the U.S to Hawaii, and make American businessmen very rich.

However, although the newly established pro-American provisional government overthrew the Queen, they were not able to directly secure the U.S annexation until events of the U.S spanish war.

The U.S annexation of Hawaii came with the U.S-Spanish War in 1898, in which the U.S aquired for the first time an overseas empire such as the Philippines, Puerto Rico. But where the U.S had aquired these through rejecting Spanish colonialism and claiming to be fighting a war against colonialism, Mckinley completely abandoned any pretension to be liberating Hawaii or for freedom and democracy.

What helped the U.S annexation of Hawaii was a very popular and influential paper by Alfred Mayan came out stating that the United States should set about securing economic markets by establishing a chain of overseas island colonies.

The annexation of Hawaii came also as part of U.S 'Open Door' policy to force countries to open themselves up to U.S economic interests. President McKinley told Congress on 11th June 1898 that "we must have Hawaii to help us get our share of China".

In July 1898, Congress passes the Hawaii annexation bill. The annexation of Hawaii was clearly out of U.S geopolitical and economic interests as stated in the Annexation articles
which itself points to all the reasons why the U.S annexed Hawaii.

'The United States and the republic of Hawaii, in view of the natural dependence of the Hawaiian Islands upon the United States, of their geographical proximity thereto, of the preponderant share acquired by the United States and its citizens in the industries and trade of said islands..."

But what was total garbage was that the annexation of Hawaii was approved by the people of Hawaii - the U.S claimed that 'and of the expressed desire of the government of the republic of Hawaii that those islands should be incorporated into the United States as an integral part thereof and under its sovereignty, have determined to accomplish by treaty an object so important to their mutual and permanent welfare".

It was the first time that the U.S embarked on a clearly imperialist path to aquiring an Empire - both formal through colonies as Hawaii and Philippines, and informal through economic influence in Panama under President Theodore Roosevelt.

Answer 4

A group of businessmen from the USA seemingly took it from the queen after the death of the king. Finally the USA annexed it. It sounds like greedy businessmen were the thieves.