HISTORY
THE AGE OF IMPERIALISM
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Question
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Queen Liluokalani was persecuting American sugar growers.
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Annexation had trade advantages for the American sugar growers in Hawaii.
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Laws forced Americans to return land to the Hawaiian government.
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All are true.
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Detailed explanation-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.
Detailed explanation-2: -Nearly half the Native Hawaiians sign a petition to Congress opposing annexation. Liliu’okalani, the former queen deposed by the U.S. military, travels to Washington, D.C., several times to plead for the rights of Native Hawaiians and for the fair settlement of crown lands.
Detailed explanation-3: -House Joint Resolution 259, 55th Congress, 2nd session, known as the “Newlands Resolution, ‘’ passed Congress and was signed into law by President McKinley on July 7, 1898-the Hawaiian islands were officially annexed by the United States. Sanford Dole became the first Governor of the Territory of Hawaii.
Detailed explanation-4: -The United States wanted to use Hawaii as a platform from which they could have a dominant Military presence in the Pacific. It was whaling, sugar and pineapples that first brought Pearl Harbor to America’s attention. U.S. business interests and naval strategists had long coveted the island kingdom.
Detailed explanation-5: -Reciprocity Treaty of 1875, free-trade agreement between the United States and the Hawaiian kingdom that guaranteed a duty-free market for Hawaiian sugar in exchange for special economic privileges for the United States that were denied to other countries.