The correct answer is - B. To gain control of the profitable sugar industry.
The Hawaiian islands were never seen as a place that is going to be used for production of sugar cane, and this is was mainly because of the isolation of the islands from the rest of the world, so any trade that was going to take place was not going to bring in solid amount of profit. Instead, Hawaii was considered as a place of great strategic importance for the future, so that was the biggest reason why there was a big interest of gaining control over it.
After the Civil War and reconstruction the New South became more diversified. It was mainly agricultural before but the new embraced the industrial part as well.
<u><em>The Mir Space Station was in orbit for an astonishing 15 years, being the first modular space station public ally known!</em></u>
The Mir Station is no longer in orbit and was destroyed upon forced reentry by the Russians in an attempt to get rid of it, so it is NOT A.
Does the word "Mir" sound American to you? Well I certainly hope not, because it isn't, so it is NOT C.
If it isn't A, and it isn't C, it can't be all of the above, so it is NOT D.
So the answer is B by process of elimination!
Federalism is a mixed form of government in which power is shared, ideally equally, between a central (federal) government and region (state) governments.
Federalism generally reduced the rights of the states, since they became actors within a federal system and limited in their powers, rather than operating as their own distinct entities.