Question

How did the growth of American-owned sugar plantations impact Hawaiian society?
(1 point)
Responses

Agricultural leaders vied with the military for control over Hawaii's ports.
Agricultural leaders vied with the military for control over Hawaii's ports.

Plantation workers joined missionaries to spread Christianity across the islands.
Plantation workers joined missionaries to spread Christianity across the islands.

Hawaiians left their farms to work on sugar plantations.
Hawaiians left their farms to work on sugar plantations.

Plantation owners became powerful and eroded the monarchy's authority.

Answer 1

Plantation owners became powerful and eroded the monarchy's authority.

Their economic dominance gave American planters political influence (e.g., the 1887 Bayonet Constitution and the 1893 overthrow of Queen Liliuokalani), which weakened the Hawaiian monarchy and led toward U.S. annexation.