History of the United States II / Unit 7 USH2 0908 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Hawaii Annexed
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The idea
Congress annexed the Hawaiian Islands by joint resolution on July seventh, eighteen ninety-eight, during the Spanish-American War.
In practice
One point seven five million acres of crown land seized, Digital History says.
Where people slip
Hawaii became a territory in nineteen hundred, its residents granted citizenship. A war elsewhere made the annexation possible.
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