Beringia was basically the exposed floor of the Bering Sea between and around Siberia and Alaska. The Bering Strait was part of Beringia, and it connected the two land masses of Siberia and Alaska. Historians theorize that our ancestors crossed the Bering Strait from Siberia into Alaska during the last Ice Age.
It was the proposed hypothesis of the colonization of America came through people who were stranded for tens of thousands of years on the Bering Land Bridge between Alaska and NorthEastern Russia.
They knew they needed to replace the British government after the war was over, and the Continental Congress suggested that each state write its own constitution.
Missouri and Maine were the 2 new states.... Maine became a free state, and Missouri became a slave state.... the Compromise of 1820 is also known as the Missouri Compromise