Hawaii

About 1,500 years ago a group of people  came ashore to some of the islands now known as Hawaii. These people where the islands’ first known residents. They had rowed about 2,000 miles from the Marquesas Islands to get here. People from what is now Tahiti over 2,500 miles away followed 500 years later. These cultures brought traditions of their own and over time created new traditions such as surfing, hula dancing, and exchanging flower garlands called leis.

In 1810 Kamehameha became Hawaii’s first king. The islands continued to have royal rulers into the 1880. In 1898 Hawaii became a U.S. territory. It was named the 50th state in 1959, and to this day you can still visit Iolani Palace the only royal building on U.S. soil.,