(A) Queen Liliuokalani desired increased American investment in Hawaii.
(B) ** pro-American planters engineered a revolt in Hawaii.
(C) public opinion in Hawaii strongly favored annexation.
(D) Hawaii felt threatened by other Pacific powers.
EXPLANATIONS BELOW
Concept note-1: -U.S. military leaders feared potential Japanese occupation of the islands and created a strategic naval base in the center of the Pacific. This provided enough fuel in Congress to pass annexation legislation, in order to save themselves from the perceived “threat of the Asiatics.” Hawaii was annexed in 1898.
Concept note-2: -Dole and other American planters have the right to stage a revolt in Hawaii in 1893? No, they didn’t have the right to stage a revolt. They did it out of greed because they only wanted wealthy landowners to vote and the Queen was going to open it up to everyone.
Concept note-3: -In 1898, the Spanish-American War broke out, and the strategic use of the naval base at Pearl Harbor during the war convinced Congress to approve formal annexation. Two years later, Hawaii was organized into a formal U.S. territory and in 1959 entered the United States as the 50th state.