(A) ** a new tariff imposed taxes on sugar
(B) protesters burned their plantations
(C) not enough workers to produce sugar
(D) not enough customers to buy sugar
EXPLANATIONS BELOW
Concept note-1: -For over a century, the sugar industry dominated Hawaii’s economy. But that changed in recent decades as the industry struggled to keep up with the mechanization in mills on mainland U.S. That and rising labor costs have caused Hawaii’s sugar mills to shut down, shrinking the industry to this one last mill.
Concept note-2: -The sugar industry, which helped usher Hawaii into statehood, steered the state’s politics and economy for more than a century. It helped build company towns inhabited by multiethnic field laborers from Asia and Europe.
Concept note-3: -Early sugar planters shared many problems: shortages of water and labor, trade barriers, and the lack of markets for their sugar.
Concept note-4: -1840s: In the earliest strikes, plantation workers protested the poor pay and living conditions. June 21, 1850: The Masters and Servants Act was enacted. This new law legalized apprenticeships, indentured service, the contract-labor system, and large importation of workers.