Answer:
American economic interests prevailed over the rights and wishes of native people.
Explanation:
In this case, the economic interest is profit from growing (and distributing) sugar. (Note 1800s, "Americans...establish profitable sugar plantations" (emphasis added).
The steps taken by the United States government following, shows the growing national interest in keeping their interests (sugar) intact with a number of steps:
1) Giving American plantation owners voting rights.
2) Tariffing Hawaiian sugar.
3) Obtaining help from U.S. marines to overthrow Hawaiian Monarchy.
4) Annexing Hawaii.
All these steps are taken to erode the power of firstly the native population in removing their voice in their own government, followed by trying to set up a puppet state to allow for maximum efficiency in creating profit, and when Hawaii protests, to forcefully obtain the goods (in this case sugar) in any way possible (being annexing in Hawaii's case).
Learn more about America's influence on Hawaii, here:
https://brainly.com/question/19304283 - Why America wanted to annex Hawaii.
