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 | | About a third of the land, some 1,500,000 acres, was supposed to be for land claims by the maka'ãinana but the ali'i and the haole manipulated the Mahele so that they received most of the land while the maka'ainana received only 28,000 acres. |
 | | The Hawai'ians, whose bodies and souls were tied to the land, were cut off from it, and the haole were able to replace the Hawai'ian social structure with their own. |
 | | It was also during the 1850's that the haole, especially the American capitalist planters and merchants, began seriously organizing either for an overthrow of the monarchy or annexation by the U.S. In 1893, the planters and merchants staged a coup backed up with a U.S. navy gunboat and 150 U.S. troops. |
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