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american studies
Question | Answer |
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what did chirstopher columbus find? | he discovered America under Spain's flag. |
how did native Americans come to America? | many believe native americans were descendants of Asian migrants who traveled through Siberia across the frozen Bering Strait into Alaska. |
what were the conquistadors? | the spanish conquers. |
what was the lost colony? | a colony Sir Walter Raleigh started and it disappeared. |
what was the purpose of Jamestown? | funded by a group of investors who wanted to establish a new world plantations. |
who was captain john smith? | he was the leader and survivor of Jamestown. |
separatists, who were they? | a group of puritans who left the church of England to America to establish a new church. |
what was the may flower? | it was the ship that the separatists and a group of investors used to get to the new world. |
what was the may flower compact? | the legal authority that the majority vote was law. |