How the U.S. got Hawaii
Hawaii is the last state admitted to the Union on August 21, 1959. The United States annexed the islands first as the queen was overthrown. We became interested in Hawaii in the 1820s. We traded and bought sugar from growers on the islands. The Mckinley tariff put a tax on foreign sugar the growers got upset because their goods were being sold for less. The growers planned to overthrow the queen and U.S. marines stormed Honolulu and raised the American flag. President Cleveland withdrew the annexation of Hawaii he thought we had acted badly in Hawaii. The court hearing did not go the way Grover Cleveland had wanted because the public strongly wanted annexation. Hawaii became U.S. territory until World War 2 after the Pearl Harbor attack.
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