US Annexation of Hawaii

Also called: Annexation of Hawaii, Newlands Resolution

After American planters overthrew the Hawaiian Kingdom, the US annexed Hawaii during the Spanish–American War.

American sugar planters dominated the politics of the Hawaiian Kingdom. In January 1893, when Queen Liliʻuokalani sought a constitution restoring royal power, they deposed her with the support of US Marines and set up the Republic of Hawaii (1894). As the Spanish–American War made a Pacific naval base important, the US completed the annexation resolution on 7 July 1898 and raised the American flag at ʻIolani Palace on 12 August. In January 1903 about a hundred Korean immigrants landed in Honolulu to work on the sugar plantations, and Hawaii later became a base for the Korean independence movement in America.