It was done without a referendum of the residents.
They where constantly taking over other countries a and all had emperors. Imperialism is the taking over of other countries.
Land ownership
The most imperialistic state in the world is Great Britain (they have colonies in XXI century). So Russia is imperialistic not more than USA =)
The US, in its history was imperialistic. They annexed many lands into their "empire" (although the US government is not an empire). A few examples are Panama, Hawaii, Cuba, and the Philippines.
is being part of the imperialistic approach beneficial to your country?
Land ownership was taken over mainly by the businesses.
no
"Imperialistic" can be a subjective evaluation and opinion, but it can safely be said that under the present administration in power, definitely not.
Why would we want to take control of hawaii when its already one of the 50 states???
It is very unlikely for volcanoes to erupt in Hawaii. Most of the volcano's in Hawaii are dormant and have not erupted in over a hundred years. However, Hawaii is said to be shrinking in size due to the erosion taking place on the land.
They were imperialistic.
The US never joined any world imperialistic movement. An argument might be made that the USA colonized Hawaii. Some local US businessmen toppled the Hawaiian Queen toward the end of the 19th century. The US Government demanded they give it back, they refused, bickering went on for decades until Hawaii voted to be annexed into the USA in the 50s. Bill Clinton apologized for the mess during his reign of hyper-polling sensitivity. Hawaii wants themselves back now, keeping the infrastructure at no cost of course, but so does Texas and Florida. We pushed some people around during the "banana republic" adventures of the Dulles brothers, but we have never imperialistic along the lines of Spain, France, Germany, Russia, Turkey, Britain, Portugal, Japan, Italy, Egypt, or any of those I forgot.