The very first European People known to have set up a colony that survived in North America were the Vikings
Cuba.
Haiti
Without European colonies in Central America and the Carribean Islands the Maya people would have probably stayed in those areas therefore none of the countries would have been a colony like it is today
Haiti, a French colony.
The Roanoke Colony. It was the first, but mysteriously disappeared. The first one that actually survived was the James Town Colony. Also a good book about the Jamestown colony is Blood on the River. Loved it.
Jamestown became the first permanent colony of England in what is now America. It encourgaed other settlers to come to America.
The original non-native Americans were IMMIGRANTS. Many of the people living in America during the American Revolution were immigrants. The British Colony of America was often used by Britain (and other European Countries followed the same practice) of unloading their criminals, by banishing them to the "Americas." Like Australia, America was loosely used by European Nations as a "Penal Colony."
A Spanish colony. Almost all of South America was under various European colonial regimes for a couple of centuries or more.
They survived and grew.
Jamestown
The French colony
The people who built the colony of Pennsylvania WERE Europeans.