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The generally accepted theory is that the first immigrants (and first human inhabitants) of North America crossed a land bridge between Alaska and Siberia in what is now the Bering Strait about 12,000 years ago; the land bridge has since been flooded by rising sea levels due to glacial melting.
If you choose not to count them, the answer is unclear because of lack of written records. Columbus certainly wasn't the first, though. The Vikings set up a short-lived settlement called Vinland in present-day Newfoundland around A.D. 1000, whose remains still exist; they were forced out by the Indians. That is very well-recorded.
There is also persuasive evidence that ships from imperial China sailed down the West Coast of North America in the early 15th Century (see 1421 by Gavin Menzies for a detailed description). Linguistic similarities observed by the Spaniards when they began to settle suggest that West Africans may have visited the pre-Columbian New World as well. In addition, English fisherman sailed very far afield and had probably fished waters off of present-day Canada by the late 1400s. (There are also many legends and oral histories allegedly telling of other voyages, but these cannot be confirmed with any certainty.)
The first permanent non-American Indian settlement in the New World was set up by Christopher Columbus in 1492 on Hispaniola. The first settlement on continental North America was also Spanish, set up by Hernán Cortés in the 1520s in the ashes of the Aztec Empire. The first permanent European settlement in what is now the United States was St. Augustine, Florida, and was also Spanish. The British first set up a lasting colony in 1607 in Jamestown, Virginia.
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Why did English settlers come to North America and where did they first settle?
BECAUSE THEY WANTED TO FIND LAND SO THEY CAN SURVIVE THE STORM ! please wright your answer.
Who were the first people to come to north America?
Puritains
The first europeans to come to north America were?
Spanish
Who were the first people to settle in latin America?
The first people were the native Americans that come from Asia and the middle east.
Who landed on North America first?
The first people known to come by boat to continental North America were Vikings sailors from Scandinavia.
When did the first sheep come to North America?
The first sheep came to North America with Christopher Columbus on his second voyage in 1493.
When did Nintendo first come out?
It was first Released In North America July 1987
Where did the first settlers in America come from?
North sibara is where native amaricans come from and they were the first ones here
What country did the first tame turkeys come from?
North America or Genome
Who were the first people to come to North America from Northern Europe?
Vikings
Why did the first people come to north America?
To look for better jobs.
Scientists believe the first people come to north America?
They are the English.
