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OF IMPERIALISM
By: Katie Rego, Jesse
Boyland, Kevin Perin, and
Greg Holmes
HOW DID THE U.S. GET
INVOLVED?
• The U.S. first got involved in 1875 when a treaty was signed between the U.S. and
Hawaii. It permitted US access to the Hawaiian sugarcane market.
• On January 16 th, 1893, the U.S. diplomatic and military personnel conspired with a small
group of people to overthrow the current Hawaiian government.
• A treaty of annexation was sent to the U.S. on the same year, but President Cleveland
denied it due to a notice that the revolution was illegally intervened by the U.S.
• Instead, the U.S. waited 5 years until they set up a second treaty of annexation with the
new Hawaiian government.
• On July 7 th, 1898, the U.S. annexed Hawaii due to war needs.
MOTIVES
2. Would not let any European nations annex or control the islands
• When the final treaty was put into action the natives of Hawaii
were very against it
• 29,000 people signed a petition to make there be a vote on the
treaty, three times, each failed.
• By 1900 a lot of natives became homeless.
•Americans populating Hawaii for free import tariffs
•The American Navy was populating
Final Result
•The United States acted more as a Mafia Don because they did it for
the better of America
-Good farming land
-Great naval position
-Expansion
•The natives of Hawaii did not want to be annexed by the U.S.
-Signing petitions for there to be a vote on the
annexation of Hawaii
BENEFITS
•1875, Sugar became the basis for Hawaii’s economy by opening trade
with the US
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