Answer:
Hawaii had long attracted the interest of American businessmen in the lucrative sugar trade. The United States federal government had provided generous terms to the sugar growers of Hawaii in the treaties of 1849 and 1875 and American businessmen had acquired substantial fortunes in the islands. The McKinley Tariff proved to a turning point in the relations between the US and Hawaii. In 1890 the United States Congress approved the McKinley Tariff, which raised import rates on foreign sugar. This had an alarming effect on the sugar planters in Hawaii who, as a direct result of the McKinley Tariff, were being undersold in the American market. The McKinley Act removed the duty on all raw sugar coming into the US, which deprived Hawaiian sugar producers of their privileged status.
Upton Sinclair's The Jungle: Muckraking the Meat-Packing Industry. Upton Sinclair wrote The Jungle to expose the appalling working conditions in the meat-packing industry. His description of diseased, rotten, and contaminated meat shocked the public and led to new federal food safety laws.
Hmmm I believe the answer is B.
<span>Among the choices provide
above sentence best explains why critics argue against social welfare programs
is "the programs' costs have risen dramatically in the recent past", one
of it is the arrangement of duty subsidized administrations or exchange
installments decreases the motivation for specialists to look for business, in
this manner lessening the need to work, diminishing the prizes of work, and
compounding destitution</span>
