Who founded America and why?

'Ancient' map could prove China found America first - Times Online (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article788237.ece)

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Who founded America and why?Hello I'm:

The United States was founded by our "founders", who are people like George Washington, and Thomas Jefferson. They did it because they wanted to be free.

AMERICA, on the other hand, is a continent and never was "founded", as such. The closest thing to "founding" America, would be the arrival of Homo Sapien upon the scene.

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Assuming this is homework, you need to read your text book that the teacher wants this from. There are various opinions as to who first came to the American Continent ( beyond the people who were already here that we took it over from)

Even then on the founding of it, you get the version that has purified any religious teachings out of it.

So if this is homework again, if you want to actually pass, you will have to answer this in the manner of the type of school and its polictical view points on the subject

America was originally founded by the phoenicians.

I was taught that the founders of "America" (short for the USA) were the very people who signed the original Constitution.

If you are talking about the continents or using "America" as slang for the continents, well, then it's different.

If you are talking about who discovered "America," then it's a different story, too.

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