Hawaii annexation timeline
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Updated: 10 Feb 2020
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Interest in Hawaii
began in AmericaKeeping 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.
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