Planters and yeomen alike often looked down on the poorest of white southerners.
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Probably the most significant part of the law was that it exempted one white male from confederate service per plantation of twenty or more slaves. Already a war that was, for the most part, to benefit the rich white planters, the twenty negro further promoted the division of classes in the south. In effect, the poor white yeomen were fighting for the benefit of planters who, themselves, did not have to fight.
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the abolition of the constitution favorable to white planters
the abolition of the constitution favorable to white planters
In response the white planters overthrew Queen Liliuokalani and set up their own temporary government in 1890
The abolition of the constitution favorable to white planters.
The abolition of the constitution that favored white planters
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Americans business owners seized control of Hawaii.
Her proposed Constitution was radical providing changes from the Bayonet Constitution which would have granted rights of citizenship like voting to Asians and Native Hawaiians. Minority White American Rule would have ended. The Queen simply had to go or their profits might have been cut in half.
Queen Liliuokalani disapproved of the influence of white settlers in the Hawaiian islands.
Queen Liliuokalani couldn't take Hawaii to war against the U.S. It failed because the big guns were all under the control of wealthy white Americans.
The number of southern planters was relatively small compared to the overall number of white southerners. Planters made up only a small percentage of the white population in the South, with the majority of white southerners being small farmers, laborers, or non-landowners.
Planters and yeomen alike often looked down on the poorest of white southerners.