HISTORY
THE AGE OF IMPERIALISM
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Hawaii
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The Benjamins
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China
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That Bass
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Detailed explanation-1: -Sugarcane had been grown in the Hawaiian Islands for hundreds of years, and Captain Cook observed small-plot sugarcane cultivation when he first landed on Kauai in 1778. Founded in 1835, the Ladd & Company sugar plantation was the first successful large-scale sugar manufacturing enterprise in the Hawaiian Islands.
Detailed explanation-2: -Sugarcane and pineapple plantations were the largest employers in Hawaiʻi. Today the sugarcane plantations are gone, production having moved to other countries.
Detailed explanation-3: -People then knew the largest plantations as the “Big Five.” This included: Castle & Cooke, Alexander & Baldwin, C. Brewer & Co., American Factors and Theo H. Davies & Co. These companies possessed great power during the early 20th century and controlled 90% of the sugar business.
Detailed explanation-4: -For nearly one hundred years, cash crop production of sugar cane, pineapple, coffee, and other products dominated Hawai’i’s economy as eventually over eighty plantations sprung up throughout the Islands following the arrival of foreigners.