1820s - America began to show interest in Hawaii because of New England trying to push their ideas onto Hawaii and other small territories.
1840s - It had become a goal of foreign policy to keep European policies out of Hawaii.
1890 - The, MCKINLEY TARIFF, was passed and it raised import rates on foreign sugar. Hawaiian sugar planters were now being undersold in the American market, and as a result, a depression swept the islands. The sugar growers, mostly white Americans, knew that if Hawaii were to be ANNEXED by the United States and so they did.
January, 1893 - Hawaiian planters had an uprising to overthrow the Queen.
1959 - Hawaii was granted statehood as the 15th state.