Hawaii annexation timeline

Interest in Hawaii began in America

Keeping European power out of Hawaii became a principal foreign policy goal.

A turning point in U.S-Hawaiian relations when Congress approved McKinley Tariff, which raised import rates on foreign sugar.

The planters of sugar staged an uprising to overthrow the Queen Liliuokalani.

Texas joined the union.

War with Spain broke out, and the military significance of Hawaiian naval bases worked as a way station to Spanish Philippines.

Hawaii became a fiftieth state.