There was very low economic growth during this time, along with an unsettle financial system and mild deflation. This was all due to the Great Depression and the First World War.
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Plantation owners turned to the enslaved Africans as a labor force because they were not paying them for their work, instead they were just providing shelter and food for them. Also, they had total control over them because they owned them, thus were able to make them work as much as they wanted and the slaves couldn't do anything about it.
Captured islands served as stepping stones for movement toward Japan