Finally checked Hawai'i on the map and YOU GUYS ARE SO FAR AWAY FROM THE REST OF THE US like how did they even find you
It all started with a guy named James Cook from Britain who liked sailing around exploring and documenting lots of places....1778. (The Hawaiians killed him because he threatened the aliʻi nui, the high chief of the Big Island).
and then some years later, whaling got to be huge, and everyone was docking and moving to Hawaii because it’s in a convenient location.
Cue Christian missionaries, conversion, Western culture everywhere, international trade agreements, sugarcane and pineapple plantations (the Big Five), the illegal overthrow of Queen Liliʻuokalani in 1893, and there you have the illegal American occupation of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi for over a hundred years.