• The First Americans were the Washutaw Muurs . They were Native Americans. The Native Americans arrived on foot they followed the animals to there destination.

• The first phase of European activity in the Americas began with the Atlantic Ocean crossings of Christopher Columbus (1492–1504), sponsored by Spain, whose original attempt was to find a new route to India and China, known as “the indians". He was followed by other explorers such as John Cadot, who reached Newfoundland and was sponsored by England. Pedro Alvares Cabral reached Brazil and claimed it for Portugal. Amerigo Vespucci , working for Portugal in voyages from 1497 to 1513, established that Columbus had reached a new set of continents. Cartographers still use a Latinized version of his first name, America, for the two continents. Other explorers included Giovanni da Verrazzano, sponsored by France; the Portuguese Joao Vaz Corte- Real in Newfoundland; and Samuel de Champlain (1567–1635) who explored Canada. In 1513, Vasco Nunez de Balboa crossed the Isthmus of Panama and led the first European expedition to see the Pacific Ocean from the west coast of the New World . In an action with enduring historical import, Balboa claimed the Pacific Ocean and all the lands adjoining it for the Spanish Crown. It was 1517 before another expedition from Cuba visited Central America, landing on the coast of Yucatan in search of slaves.

• As a result of Columbus's voyages to the New World, a biological pipeline between America and Europe opened up that had been apart since before humans appeared on earth. The lands had drifted apart that had once been connected. Some species of plants and animals flourished in both areas, and some did not. There were many new animals and plants in the Americas that Europeans had never seen. And, Europeans brought plants and animals to the New World that America had never seen. This includes viruses and other biological organisms. The new animals brought to America upset the ecology of the area. The people living in the Americas did not have resistance to many of the "germs" brought by the Europeans. Biologically, the Indians had not been exposed to measles, smallpox, whooping cough, chicken pox, and influenza. The effect of these diseases on the Americans was catastrophic. Bacteria and viruses killed more Native Americans than did Spanish swords. The Indians also gave to the Europeans, venereal disease. Medical historians disagree on the origins of syphilis, but it was first identified by physicians in 1493, in Cadiz, Spain, the port which Columbus returned to after his first voyage. The Colombian Exchange was also a cultural exchange. New agricultural developments were traded, economic activity and opportunities opened up between the New and Old Worlds, and new ideas were exchanged.

• Explorers had been landing in America for some time before English settlers arrived in what is now Jamestown, Virginia, in 1607. But it was in that spot on the James River that English colonization began and with it, the history of America

• French and Indian War were fought mainly between France and England, which became part of Britain during the second war. The cause of the French and Indian War is that the French settlements lay north of the English colonies, along the shores of the St. Lawrence River and the Great Lakes. They fought between 1689 and 1763.

• Reason 1; 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.

• Reason 3; Because the colonists were tired of not having no freedom

• Two people who played a major role in declaring or gaining the independence for the United States

Thomas Jefferson

John Adams