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Why did some of the people of American descent who were living in Hawaii in the late 1800s want the United States to annex the territory?

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Queen Liliuokalani, ruler of Hawaii at the time, determined that the cause of the troubles in her land was foreign interference. In opposition to this belief was the American planters, who felt by annexing the islands the tariff would go away.

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