What groups were interested in increasing among America's presence in Hawaii and why

American merchants (stopping on their way to China and east India) and Yankee missionaries settled and became sugar planters (selling most of their crop to the u.s.) American owned sugar plantations=3/4 of the islands wealth, labored from Japan, Portugal, and China-outnumbering native Hawaiians

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