Instructions: Search the web and answer the eight questions below and provide an active link (URL) that indicates where you found the answer. The answer should be obvious from the information based on the URL link you provide. In other words, I shouldn’t have to run a search or click on more links to find the answer in the URL you provide. You cannot use any one website to answer more than two questions, and you cannot use Answers.com, Wikipedia, or Wikapedia. I prefer that you stay away from open source websites such as those mentioned above because anyone can post topics on those websites. As a rule avoid, “.com” extensions. Use .edu, .org, and .gov websites instead. They are more reliable and authoritative. 

Questions:

1. Jamestown was the first permanent English establishment in North America. Did the English attempt to start a colony before this in North America? If so, where and when?
2. Is there any credibility or evidence that Europeans made it over to the New World before Columbus? If so, what group made it over and when?
3. The majority of slaves in the United States came from what region in Africa?
4. Which of the thirteen original colonies was supposed to be a haven for debtors and convicts?
5. What “town” existed in what is now Washington, D.C. before the formal establishment of the nation’s capital?
6. What four U.S. states allowed slavery yet did not secede from the Union during the Civil War?
7. What government document legally established the Union of States and preceded the U.S. Constitution?
8. When did Maine become a state? Who governed the land before its statehood?