Provide two reasons that the u. s. ensured that it acquired hawaii.

Military power and economic gain were the two most important reasons for expansion.  Hawaii gave America both of these things.  The Hawaiian sugar plantations were a great source of wealth and of sugar, which is one reason why sugar magnates were behind the overthrow of Queen Lili’uokalani.  When the US took Hawaii, the Navy got a large and important base at Pearl Harbor.  This helped the US to project its power across the Pacific.