who colonised United States of America?

Question

lt is believed that apart from the English there are other colonial masters to United States of America.

Answer 1

It wasn´t me ......Honest ! !

Answer 2

I take it you meant the geographical area that is now the United States of America.

Firstly, the "native Indians" appear to have entered North America from what is now Russia perhaps ten thousand years and to have progressively migrated South.

Archaeological evidence shows that the Vikings reached America, mainly Newfoundland but also the North East of what is now the USA, in the first millenium AD.

The Basques fished for Cod which they brought back to Europe, to the Basque country that they would not thank you for calling Northern Spain, in mediaeval times. They brought it back salted, and it is thought likely they landed in America (again, probably Newfoundland) for this purpose. The suggestion is that they kept this secret for commerical reasons.

The Chinese may have landed on the Western coast of America during the early fifteenth century.

After the "discovery" of America by the Europeans, various nations set up small colonies. These included the Spanish, in California and later in Texas, the Dutch: New York was New Amsterdam before the English pushed them out, and the French, for instance in Louisiana. These other nations gradually got pushed out by the English and after independence by the United States itself.

The Russians owned Alaska until they sold it to the United States.

This is a very potted list: get looking up the history books. This is a bigger topic than an Answer on Yahoo can deal with adequately.

You will realise that a colony consists of a group of settlers who retain allegiance to and/or identity with their homeland. Not all the groups I have mentioned above set up a political organization of this nature.

Answer 3

The Welsh, The Vikings, The Asians Mots Of Europe, The Incas, Oh The New World Really Wasnt That New. The English Fishermen Had Wifes And Children In English Villigase There Hundreds Of Years Before It Was "Discovered."

Answer 4

The Welsh, The Vikings, The Asians, Most Of Europe, The Incas, The New World Really Wasnt That New. The English Fishermen Had Wifes And Children In English Villages There Hundreds Of Years Before It Was "Discovered."

Answer 5

Technically (in the sense that bacteria colonise a wound) anyone who was born or arrived there.

Who truly cares? I once had an argument with a man in Mexico City who was telling me he hated Christopher Columbus. I asked him, if Columbus had not come to America, what difference would it have made. He had to admit that it would have been someone else, probably someone very similar.
This man was clearly of some Spanish descent, yet he prefered to be angry rather than ponder on his links with the arrival of Spaniards.
We go on about this as though it affects us. The only people it truly affects are the so-called Native Americans who make a big deal and a lot of money and power from the idea that they were the first arrivals on the continent. Hey didn't they kill off most of the animals too?

Answer 6

Spain, France, Netherlands, Russia and even Sweden colonized America.

Spain held Florida, California, Texas, New Mexico and other portions of the southwestern United States.

France held Louisiana and the land bordering the Mississippi river, collectively known as the "Louisiana Purchase" which Thomas Jefferson, as president, purchased from Napoleon.

The Netherlands held New York and explored the Hudson River.

Russia originally held Alaska.

Sweden also colonized a particular area, however, I forget which.

These were the Europeans who arrived after Columbus. Anthropologists believe that there were pre-Colombian colonists from Europe, perhaps Irish and Viking sailors. There were also some settlers from the South Pacific, Asia (across the land bridge over the Bering Strait). Traces of several different waves of pre-Colombian colonists have been found and not all of them have been assigned to places of origin by anthropologists.

Answer 7

English, Spanish, Scots, Welsh, Irish, Italians.
All Europeans.

Answer 8

In the early days, there where dutch colonies on the east coast, but these where taken over by the english. (New Amsterdam, the city that became New York, was one of these.)
The french had colonies in the south and north.
(louisiana). These territories where partially conquered by the english, and the rest later sold to the US by Napoleon in 1803.
The spanish controlled territories in the south that where later taken over by the US. Texas was originally a province of mexico.
Alaska was originally Russian territory. It was bought by the US in 1867

The norse reached the north american continent arond 1000 AD, but their small colony died out, and had no impact on the later US.

Answer 9

The Inuit. Their descendants are now known as 'Native Americans' but I'm sure I saw some anthropology documentary that 'proved' the migrated there. OK so I'm stretching the term 'colonial' somewhat, but what else would you call a group of people moving into an area, settling it and claiming it as their own?

Answer 10

yes, of course, it's not just the British who came to the new world after Columbus "discovered" it .The first conquest was made by the Spaniards,who took mostly the southern parts,like the Portuguese..The English and French took the northern areas...but it was said that sea-farers (i'm not sure if they're called Norse or Vikings) from Norway came to the Americas 500 years before Columbus..

Answer 11

The French and Spanish had some of the southern states, and wasn't Texas once part of Mexico?