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As American business took control of Hawaii's land and population, the Hawaiian people
benefitted greatly from American business opportunities
were exposed to diseases that greatly reduced their population on the islands
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were exposed to diseases that greatly reduced their population on the islands.
Contact with American and European settlers brought infectious diseases (smallpox, measles, influenza, whooping cough) to which Native Hawaiians had little immunity, causing catastrophic population decline. At the same time American business interests seized land and political power (sugar plantations, the 1893 overthrow, annexation), so the islanders generally lost land and sovereignty rather than benefiting broadly from business opportunities.
Contact with American and European settlers brought infectious diseases (smallpox, measles, influenza, whooping cough) to which Native Hawaiians had little immunity, causing catastrophic population decline. At the same time American business interests seized land and political power (sugar plantations, the 1893 overthrow, annexation), so the islanders generally lost land and sovereignty rather than benefiting broadly from business opportunities.
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