Why caused American to only Annex Hawaii, but ignored its other island territories like Guam, Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Wake Island, or the Virgin Islands?

by facadesintheday
VermeersHat

What do you mean by annex? Are you asking about statehood here?

TibetanPeachPie

It's difficult to determine what your actual question is.

Hawaii became a state because it was granted statehood by the U.S. legislature and voted to become a state.

Puerto Rico has never had a majority vote wishing to become a U.S. state though there is a federally supported referendum in the works.

I don't know what you mean by "ignore" but the other places you mention have populations of about 50,000 - 150,000 and wouldn't likely be considered for statehood as they would be vastly overrepresented in the senate.