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| Hawaii, the newest state in the United
States, is a (21) of eight large islands and many small
(22) in the Central Pacific Ocean, about 2,200 miles west of
San Francisco. Hawaii was probably (23) about 750 A.
D. , by (24) from the other Pacific islands. The first
Europeans (25) Americans to visit it were the British
Captain James Cook and his (26) in 1778. James named his
discovery the Sandwich Islands (27) the sponsor of his
expedition, the Earl of Sandwich. Twelve years later, the others from Europe and
the new United States began to settle in the islands. These "westerners" brought (28) to Hawaii. They brought new diseases, which the Hawaiians had no (29) to; they brought alcohol, which many Hawaiians became (30) to; they brought a new religion which (31) the old values and forced the islanders to (32) their old culture and (33) to a new one. Many Americans settled in Hawaii, and in 1893, they (34) the queen and (35) Hawaii a republic. Sandford Dole, a missionary’s son, was made president. In 1898, the United States (36) the islands, and it became a (37) of the United States in 1900. On December 7th, 1941, the Japanese (38) Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. This attack (39) the entrance of the United States to the Second World War. In 1959, the United States Congress (40) Hawaii to statehood, making it the fiftieth state in the United States. For the first time in about 200 years, Hawaiians were able to participate in the electoral process. |