Farmers of the late 19th century did not benefit from the "McKinley Tariff," since this only made certain foreign goods more expensive by placing a general tax on their import.
Missionaries were the first group from the United States to settle in Hawaii. They were followed by the businessmen. Then, the military came.
American Protestant missionaries lead by Reverend Amos Starr Cooke settled in Hawaii on 1837. He set up a school to educate future monarchs. He became the unofficial adviser to the King, one of his previous students. Cooke influenced the king's decision to devise a land reform that allows businessmen to buy land from the locals and become sugarcane planters.
Hawaii's location is ideal for strategic warfare, thus, the military settled there.
During the late 1800s in Poland and Russia, anti-Semitism took the form of violent attacks called Pogrom.
These attacks forced many Jews to flee to western Europe. Nonetheless, some Jews continued to survive in eastern Europe in small villages called Shtetlekh.
Pogrom is a Russian word which means to wreak havoc or to demolish violently. Historically, the term refers to violent attacks by local non-Jewish populations on Jews in the Russian Empire and in other countries.
Shtetlekh were small towns with large Jewish populations, which existed in Central and Eastern Europe before the Holocaust.
Potatoes were the main source of food. Without the main source of food, many people starved to death.
a) usually nope, legislatures are highly prone to mistakes when drafting laws and it is very common for laws to be extremely unclear.
b) more importantly, courts, and the Supreme Court in particular, because of its interpretive skill and power can limit or expand laws.
