WORLD WAR I
CAUSES AND COURSE OF THE WAR
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Question
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Why did Americans in Hawaii want to be annexed by the United States?
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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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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -When Queen Liliuokalani moved to establish a stronger monarchy, Americans under the leadership of Samuel Dole deposed her in 1893. The planters’ belief that a coup and annexation by the United States would remove the threat of a devastating tariff on their sugar also spurred them to action.
Detailed explanation-2: -Again, the question of Hawaiian annexation moved to the U.S. Senate. Imperialists, like Captain Mahan and Assistant Secretary of the Navy Theodore Roosevelt, argued that annexing Hawaii would help the United States become a world power. But the anti-imperialists opposed annexation.
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