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First New England missionaries arrive
The first White people begin to arrive in Hawaii and begin to convert the indiginous population to christianity, leading to the begining of unrest in Hawaii -
State department steps in to secure Hawaii
The arrival of asian imigrants to Hawaii instilled a fear in the white American population that Japan or China might try to claim Hawaii for their own, this caused the U.S. State department to warm nations to keep their hadns off Hawaii -
America secures Pearl Harbor
The native population in Hawaii guarantees the priceless naval base of Pearl Harbor. This strengthens the U.S.'s ties with Hawaii -
The Mckinley tariff
This tariff raised the price to import goods from Hawaii, causing the American plantation owners to strive for annexation -
The overthrow of the old Hawaiian government
In response to the Mckinley tariff a group of minority whites, with the help of a squad os U.S. Marines, force the old monarchy and the queen to resign power to America. They did this in hopes of annexing Hawaii and thus eliminating the tariff -
Grover Cleveland becomes president and disrupts annexation
Grover Cleveland felt that the people of Hawaii had been treated unfairly and halted the attempted annexation of it. He resused to annex Hawaii for the rest of his time in office -
Hawaii finally becomes a territory of America
After Grover Cleveland's term in office ended, Hawaii is quickly annexed into America as a territory, thus elminating the high tariff that had upset the white farmers. Hawaiians didn't really want to be annexed, but were left with little say, as the annexation was pursued more by white farmers looking to turn a profit. -
Hawaii becomes an offical U.S. state
Hawaii becamoe the 50 state to join the United states. Even though it is a state there is still a strong anti-american sentiment in some of the indigenous population
