Need to make browser back button go back to previous page root url sitewide on Wordpress

Question

I have a particular problem on a site that I'm working on and can't seem to get things working on Wordpress. I have a tab section of the site that uses # to function properly. I also have anchor links to these sections as well. Everything works great, but when I navigate off of the page and click the browser back button, I have to click through each # until I get to the root page. I realize that this is the normal browser behavior, but need to find a workaround if possible. I've tried all sorts of code, and could post some things I've tried but nothing is working thus far. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks so much