Sanford B. Dole is famous for his efforts to annex Hawaii as a state, which increased American dominance.
Sanford Ballard Dole, who served as the sole president of the Republic of Hawaii and was a Supreme Court justice for the previous Kingdom of Hawaii, was instrumental in its founding. He played a key role in the United States' annexation of the islands, and he later served as the territory of Hawaii's first governor.
Sanford Ballard Dole served as both the first governor of the Territory of Hawaii (from 1900 to 2003) and the first president of the Republic of Hawaii (1894–1900).
In the 1890s, a lawyer named Sanford Dole played a significant role in Hawaii becoming a territory of the United States. Dole participated in the fall of the Hawaiian monarchy and presided over the Hawaiian Republic, an island-based autonomous government, for a number of years.
Thus this is how actions of Sanford B. Dole helped moving the United States into a position of world power.
Most Vikings were farmers. They grew crops such as barley, oats and rye and kept cattle, goats, sheep, pigs, chickens and horses. In most parts of Scandinavia, people lived in timber houses, but in places where wood was scarce they built with turf or stone instead.
