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Native Hawaiian people traces their ancestry back from thousands years BC, their ancestors started to migrate from the island of Taiwan to the today Philippines and Indonesia to other islands throughout the Pacific Ocean and arrived at Hawaii.
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Roughly 1500 years ago, Polynesian people from Marquesas Islands first settled in Hawaii. They also brought pigs, dogs, chicken, coconuts, taros, sweet potatoes, bananas and sugar canes with them.
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Captain James Cook was the first European who found Hawaiian Islands when he was trying to find trade routes on the Pacific Ocean between Alaska and Asia. After that, white people from Europe and America started to settle in Hawaii.
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With the help from European modern military technology, King Kamehameha I unified the islands for the first time and established the Hawaiian Kingdom.
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White American farmers developed sugarcane agriculture. It started to flourish quickly and became the main economic activity which required huge labor. European people, mostly Portuguese and Asian, mostly Japanese and Filipino began to migrate to Hawaii.
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The last royal member, Queen Liliuokalani was overthrown by American businessmen with help from the US military. Hawaii became a US territory.
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Because of having perfect location right in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, the US started to use Hawaii as an important military port at the end of 19th century. Hawaii was an important American outpost in the Oceania.
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The number of Native Hawaiian people decreased rapidly from 300.000 in mid-18th century to 24.000 in 1920 because of diseases were brought to by European people.
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During the World War 2, the Japanese army attacked Pearl Harbor on the Oahu Island surprisingly. They bombed lots of American battleships there and created a great shock all over the world. This event led US to join the Allies and fought against the Axis.
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The US Congress officially admitted Hawaii as the 50th state after when President Eisenhower signed the Hawaii Admission Act. All the church bells in the city of Honolulu rang at the same time to celebrate this important statehood.
