American Indians and European settlers

Indigenous peoples migrated to the United States including Alaska from Asia. Migration began at least 12,000 people from more than 40,000 years and the fact that some, such as pre-Columbian Mississippian culture methods for agriculture, major infrastructure, and societies at the state level. Many died of the population indigenous to the Americas after the Europeans began settling the Americas, because of the epidemics that came with the Europeans, like smallpox.
The Mayflower transported Pilgrims to the New World in 1620, as shown in the Mayflower in Plymouth Harbor William Halsall in 1882.

In 1492, arrived in the Italian explorer Christopher Columbus, under contract with the Spanish monarchy, to many Caribbean islands, which is the first contact with indigenous people. On the second day of the month of April 1513, arrived Spanish conquistador Juan Ponce de Leon, described as "Florida" is the first documented arrival of Europeans to what the United States later. And followed the Spanish settlements in the region other settlements in the southwestern United States, which has made thousands are turning to Mexico. The French fur traders established outposts of France's good about the Great Lakes region; France also claims it has a lot of the interior of North America and access to the Gulf of Mexico. The settlement of Virginia, the first successful English settlement, is located in James Town in 1607, in addition to the Plymouth colony in 1620. As a result, rental of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1628 on the migration of many residents, and in 1634, 10,000 Protestants settled in New Ingelad. Between late 1610 and the American Revolution, was shipped about 50,000 prisoners to the British colonies of America. [28] Starting in 1614, the Dutch settled on the banks of the Hudson River, and New Amsterdam, which lies on the island of Manhattan. In 1674, the waiver of the Dutch land of America to England; and called the province of New Netherlands to become New York. Was hired as many new immigrants, especially immigrants, including to the south, to work as domestic servants, which represents about two thirds of migrants and Virginia between 1630 and 1680. With the end of the century, African slaves became the main source of labor force. After dividing the Carolinas in 1729, and the colonization of Georgia in 1732, became the British colony of the thirteen United States. And includes all local governments with elections open to all free men, because of the increasing admiration for the ancient rights Linclaiz and a sense of self-government, which supports the republican system. And all those governments referred to the African slave trade. And increased population density in the colonies is largely due to high birth rates and low death rates, and orderly migration. Sparked a movement preaching Christianity that emerged between 1730, 1740, known as the Great Awakening, people's attention to religion and religious freedom. During the French and Indian War, British forces seized Canada from France, however, the French are isolated politically from the southern colonies. With the exception of Native Americans (known as the "Red Indians") who have become homeless, the number of people in the thirteen colonies to 2.6 million in 1770, where a British-third of this number, and a fifth of the population of black Americans. It was not a place for the American colonists in the English Parliament, although they had to pay British taxes