what reasons did the United States have for annexing Hawaii? Why do you think some Americans did not want to annex Hawaii?

Spurred by the nationalism aroused by the Spanish-American War, the United States annexed Hawaii in 1898 at the urging of President William McKinley. Hawaii was made a territory in 1900, and Dole became its first governor.

Native Hawaiians staged mass protest rallies and formed two gender-designated groups to protest the overthrow and prevent annexation ... They hoped that if the U. S. government realized that the majority of native Hawaiian citizens opposed annexation, the move to annex Hawaii would be stopped.