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Claim Hawaii as their territory because of a worldwide shortage of sugar and a huge demand of product from Hawaii. Hawaii was one of the few lands left unclaimed in the world at the time (1800’s), and it’s geographical location and rich resources were too good for the U.S. to pass up. Keeping European powers out of Hawaii was a major foreign policy at the time.
They received all they were hoping to receive.
The more rich European business people did not want to loose there control of the the land so the imprisoned the queen in her room to remain in power. These business people one being Sanford B. Dole wanted to get Hawaii annexed to the U.S and would get rid of the taxes from goods grown in Hawaii and make Dole and his followers a lot of money.
Due to the economic issues imposed by the McKinley Tariff, in 1893, the sugar farmers rose against the Queen. After the Queen was abdicated and Hawaii was annexed, the process of modernization began and naturally, much of the culture was to be lost as many people were immigrating to take advantage of the booming sugar market. After this it was only a matter of time before Hawaii was granted statehood in 1959.
They are still trying to get their independence, but overall the annexation had positive benefits for Hawaii.
In 1890, Congress passed the McKinley Tariff, which raised import rates on foreign sugar. As a result, Hawaiian sugar farmers were being undersold in the American
market, and a depression swept the
islands. The farmers knew that if Hawaii were to be annexed, the tariff problem
would go away on its own because it
would no longer be foreign sugar. So
America essentially imposed an economic downturn on the islands in order to pressure them to accept annexation.