USA HISTORY

AMERICAN IMPERIALISM(1890 1919)

AMERICAN IMPERIALISM

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Why did some rich Americans in Hawaii want to be annexed by the United States?

(A) Queen Liluokalani was persecuting American sugar growers.

(B) ** Annexation had trade advantages for the American sugar growers in Hawaii.

(C) Laws forced Americans to return land to the Hawaiian government.

(D) All are true.

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Concept note-1: -America’s annexation of Hawaii in 1898 extended U.S. territory into the Pacific and highlighted resulted from economic integration and the rise of the United States as a Pacific power. For most of the 1800s, leaders in Washington were concerned that Hawaii might become part of a European nation’s empire.