How did the U. S. acquire the Hawaiian Islands? The U. S. sent the USS Nashville to enforce the payment of a tax.
American planters staged a rebellion with support of the U. S. navy.
The U. S. purchased it for $20 million.
The U. S. won it in the Treaty of Paris after the Spanish American War.

Dole declared Hawaii an independent republic. 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.

Explanation:

usually her father was the one that controlled it after the death of the husband