taking hawaii- china and east indies went to hawaii to get supplies to go home, midway stop between us and asia, sugar cane plantations, 1875 us decided to import goods to hawaii, allowed hawaiian sugar to be brought in for free and not have to pay tarifs meaning hawaii was basically seen as a state, 1887 pearle harbor, same year us forced king to make it so that only white land owner males could vote, queen lili was the last queen, "hawaii for hawaiians", military took over hawaii, clevland gave power back to the queen, mckinley came into presidency and took hawaii, 1959 hawaii became a state
causes of spanish american war- cuba was a part of spain, someone thought we should buy cuba and spain didnt want us to, they would rather see it sink to the bottom of the ocean, cuba wanted independance, 1868-78 cuba started rebelling against spain, we supported cubans, we felt sorry for them because we went through it, unsuccesful but abolished slavery, us began to invest money in their sugar cane plantations, jose marte organized rebellion and destroyed american property and made it seem like the spanish was doing it so we would go down there and help him, spain started setting up concentration camps, concentration camps more of just relocating people, general valeriano "the butcher" weyler, yellow press was gernalism that stretched the truth to make a better story, instigators, we started making demands and spain was following them or we would go to war
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