Title: How Did Hawaii Become A State? | Hawaiian Planner
Headings: How Did Hawaii Become A State?
How Did Hawaii Become A State?
The First Non-Polynesian
The Exploitation of Hawaii & Inevitable Diversity
Dethroning The Monarch
A War And Political Turmoil
World War II, The Civil Rights Movement & Statehood

Content: He was supported by the US Minister to Hawaii, John L Stevens, and he dethroned the queen with 300 American Marines at his back. The Marines had arrived at the islands on the US Cruiser Boston, and they were supposedly sent to Hawaii to protect American lives. The coup was heralded by plantation owners who were wary about their economic interests. They wanted to supply Americans with sugar and pineapple without tax, and they also wanted stability. The plantation owners feared a takeover by natives or other countries that would put their plantations in jeopardy. One year after the coup, a reluctant US Congress voted to make Hawaii an American protectorate. It was mainly an economic move to protect the American plantations that dotted the islands. And Sanford B Dole was appointed President of the new protectorate, but he was fighting hard to have Hawaii completely annexed by the United States. A War And Political Turmoil
The Spanish-American War broke out in the late 19th Century, and Hawaii became very strategic during the fight. The Americans established a naval base at Pearl Harbor in 1898, and Hawaii’s naval importance forced Congress’s hand.