In what way did economic factors influence political developments in the annexation of hawaii? native hawaiians, who depended on american sugar planters for jobs, pressured american leaders to annex the islands american sugar planters in hawaii, who favored annexation to protect their profits supported a revolution that ousted queen liluikalani faced with a surplus of sugar, american planters in hawaii pushed for annexation so that the sugar trade could be opened to markets in the us.
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