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<em>А. friendly: most violence was directed at other groups </em>
Interest in HAWAII<span> began in America as early as the 1820s, when New England missionaries tried in earnest to spread their faith. Since the 1840s, keeping European powers out of Hawaii became a principal foreign policy goal. Americans acquired a true foothold in Hawaii as a result of the </span>SUGAR TRADE<span>. The United States government provided generous terms to Hawaiian sugar growers, and after the Civil War, profits began to swell.</span>
This would be an oligarchy. An oligarchy is where power is given to a group of people, be it nobility, wealthy people or people with family ties. Land, people and a form of sovereignity do however.