Imperialism is the policy of establishing colonies in countries that are less financially stable. They would use them to produce raw materials and expand their markets. The United States annexes in 1900 should be categorized as imperialism. Once the Americans settled in Hawaii, they began growing sugar and selling it to the United States Americans. Hawaii got the U.S. to agree to give the U.S. the favored-nation status. That allowed Hawaii to be able to have sugar imported to the United States without tariffs.
Congress decided to take away Hawaii’s privileges because they passed the McKinley tariff in 1890. The people who grew sugar in Hawaii now had to compete with all the others from the U.S. and Cuba. They failed and then Hawaii