The first Indians The Native Americans are widely believed to have come to the Americas using the prehistoric Bering Land Bridge.

Exploration rise of humanism and worldly curiosity, ushering in a new age of scientific and intellectual inquiry. European overseas expansion led to the rise of colonial empires, with the contact between the Old and New Worlds producing the Columbian Exchange: a wide transfer of plants, animals, foods, human populations (including slaves).

Read more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_Discovery Juan Ponce de Leon was the first to explore Florida .

Christopher Columbus discovered the new world .

. most impact was the introduction of European diseases, which wiped out roughly 90% of the native tribes within three decades of contact and made it much easier for European empires to colonize.  Native peoples most times lost their culture, their lands, having been removed from them for plantations and settlers, their ways of life in exchange for European ones, and their religion, usually replaced by Catholicism.  Many would even lose their spoken language as well

Spain, Portugal, Spain, Portugal, Italy all settle in the United States in 1872 -1928. The first English colony was most likely St. John's, Newfoundland

(now in Canada), settled permanently since 1583. However, there are other communities on the island of Newfoundland (such as harbour Grace) dating from 1583 as well, so the exact first colony is hard to pin-point and has been lost to history.

Roanoke Island in what is now North Carolina was settled in 1587, but the colony failed and was "lost".

Jamestown, VA was not settled until 1607.

The French and Indian War started because the British settlers were going farther into Indian lands in the Ohio Valley, and the French were also in the region, mostly as trappers. The Indians fought on both sides, but they were mainly allies for the French . The war was until 1754-1763 leaving the British to win the war.

Reason one; Because the King of England wanted to tax the Colonists without giving them representation in British parliament. Reason 2; Because the Colonists decided they wanted a better and stronger government, one that would listen to them

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Thomas jefferson is a person who played a role with declaring independence and he also made documents .Thomas Mckean was another person involved in the declaration

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