WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The American connection propelled Hawaii into a period of economic boom. By the time the US entered WWII in 1941 Hawaii had developed into one of the biggest plantation economies in the world, producing 4% of global sugar supply.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Reciprocity Treaty of 1875 allowed Hawaiʻi to sell sugar to the United States without paying duties or taxes, greatly increasing plantation profits. This treaty also guaranteed that all of the resources including land, water, human labor power, capital, and technology would be thrown behind sugarcane cultivation.

Detailed explanation-3: -This idea was later copied by many other planters on the islands. As the Civil War destroyed agriculture in the South, it helped sugar become a successful venture in Hawaii. Sugar’s success also benefitted the Hawaiian monarchy as an additional source of income for its island kingdom.

Detailed explanation-4: -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.

Detailed explanation-5: -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.