Sir ______________ started the first English settlement in North America on Roanoke Island, and named a portion of land "Virginia."
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
Answer: Walter Raleigh
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A) New England B) the mid-Atlantic C) the upper South D) the lower South E) the back country
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a. Mao Tse-tung b. Chiang Kai-shek c. Deng Xiaoping d. Hu Jintao e. Sun Yat-sen
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a. two-thirds Senate approval of the Treaty of Annexation. b. a joint resolution enacted by a simple majority in the House and the Senate rather than the two-thirds constitutional supermajority required of all treaties with foreign nations. c. a presidential executive order by President Tyler. d. the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo. e. a political compromise to admit free-state Iowa at the same time.