This should not be surprising, as it is the most populous state in the entire United States, and has been since 1964. California is arguably the most diverse of all the Pacific States. The Pacific States have a very diverse population. In 1959, both Alaska and Hawaii ascended to US statehood. The Americans also fought Japanese forces in the Aleutian Islands of Alaska during the war. The Japanese attack on Hawaii’s Pearl Harbor on Decembrought the United States into the war against the Axis Powers, of which Japan was a member. During World War II, parts of Alaska and Hawaii became battlefields. The United States annexed the islands in 1898. But in 1893, the Hawaiian queen, Liliuokalani, was placed under house arrest. At the time, Hawaii was an independent kingdom. The American conquest of Hawaii began in the late 19 th century. 1849, lithograph by Currier & Ives, 1871. The Gold Rush, gold mining in California, ca. This happened at about the same time as the Mexican-American War (1846-1848). By the mid-19 th century, the Americans gained control of what is now the Pacific Northwest region of the Continental United States. In the early 19 th century, the Spanish Pacific Coast became part of the new country of Mexico, while the United States and Britain jointly occupied the Pacific Northwest. At the same time, the Russians began to colonize Alaska. The Spaniards had conquered most of the Pacific Coast of what is now the Continental United States by the late 18 th century. The European conquest of the present-day Pacific States began in the 18 th century. It is thought that Hawaii was first inhabited 1,500 years ago, when Polynesians sailed to the islands. Their ancestors came across the Bering Strait, between present-day Russia and Alaska, when a land bridge linked Asia and North America, between 45,000 BCE and 12,000 BCE. Many Native American peoples inhabited what are now the Pacific States prior to contact with Europeans.
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