The group of people that first migrated to and populated the
Americans over 13,000 years ago were the Asians. Asians are being referred to
the people who were born and raised from the Eastern part of the globe in which
they are likely to inhabit the largest continent on Earth.
<span>The first populations of North and South America arrived between 10,000 and 20,000 years ago, traveling across the Beringia land bridge between Siberia and western Alaska. These were hunter-gatherers from North Asia referred to as the Paleo-Indians. It is thought that the first groups, or "Clovis cultures", arrived around 13,000 years ago, though discoveries in the early 2000's of precursors to the Clovis groups have pushed that figure back closer to 16,000-20,000 years ago.</span>
In the early years of what later became the United States, Christian religious groups played an influential role in each of the British colonies, and most attempted to enforce strict religious observance through both colony governments and local town rules. Most attempted to enforce strict religious observance
