Hawaii geography timeline

New England missionaries tried in earnest to spread their faith.

keeping European powers out of Hawaii became a principal foreign policy goal.

Congress approved the Mckinley Tariff

planters staged an uprising to overthrow the Queen and they appealed to the United States armed forces for protection.

War broke out in Spain and the military significance of Hawaiian naval bases as a way station to the Spanish Phillipines outweighed all other considerations.

Texas joined the Union

Hawaii remained a territory until granted statehood as the fiftieth state