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How did the growth of American-owned sugar plantations impact Hawaiian society?
A. Agricultural leaders vied with the military for control over Hawaii's ports.
B. Plantation workers joined missionaries to spread Christianity across the islands.
C. Hawaiians left their farms to work on sugar plantations.
D. Plantation owners became powerful and eroded the monarchy's authority.
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American-owned sugar planters amassed great wealth and used it to dominate Hawaii’s economy and politics. They forced political changes (e.g., the 1887 “Bayonet Constitution”), helped overthrow the monarchy in 1893, and pressed for U.S. annexation, undermining royal authority.
American-owned sugar planters amassed great wealth and used it to dominate Hawaii’s economy and politics. They forced political changes (e.g., the 1887 “Bayonet Constitution”), helped overthrow the monarchy in 1893, and pressed for U.S. annexation, undermining royal authority.
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