How did the first Americans arrive in America?

Answer 1

From about 2 million to 10,000 years ago, the earth was in the grip of the Ice Age. The northern half of the world was covered with glaciers. In some places the glaciers were 1 to 2 miles thick.

The 56-mile (90-km) strip of water that now separates Alaska from northeastern Asia was the site of a land bridge called Beringia. Because so much of the earth’s water froze into ice, the ocean level dropped. This exposed the strip of land between the two continents. Today that land is covered by the waters of the Bering Strait.

Large herds of mammoth, bison, and caribou wandered across the land bridge in search of grazing land. Gradually, small groups of Asian hunters who depended on these animals for food followed them into the Americas. Over the years, both the animals and the people made their way into the grasslands at the southern edges of the glaciers.

Answer 2

That depends on who you call the first Americans. Modern Americans would date to the Spanish, Dutch, English, French and Russian explorers. The Spanish set up missions and fortresses. The English set up colonies, as did the French and Dutch. The French and Russians were interested in the fur trade. The Spanish were interested in the gold. The Dutch were looking for a waystation for their trading companies.
The vikings came to North America around 1100 A.D. for fishing and exploring purposes. They set up some communities but did not remain long.
The indigenous people of America came from various places. Some probably came down from Siberia across the Bering ice bridge. Some came by boat from the old world. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints teaches that the Garden of Eden was actually located in North America meaning that the first Americans were here from the beginning of time. In the Book of Mormon, it teaches that a colony of immigrants came here from the Tower of Babel around 2300 BC and a later group arrived from Jerusalem about 589 B.C. Whether or not they met up with other northern immigrants when they arrived is not known.
Take your pick.
Born here, walked here or sailed here.

Answer 3

The first non-native people here were Scandinavian Vikings. Then the Italian, Christopher Columbus. Then the English on the Mayflower.
If you are asking how the first Native Americans came here, it is thought that the first people came over a land bridge from what is now Russia to Alaska.

Answer 4

10,000 years ago people from Asia crossed the Bering Strait over into what is now Alaska. They migrated all the way down to South America.

Answer 5

The earliest remnants of mankind in America have been found in Virginia. They have been determined to be European from the iceage and are believed to have crossed into America over land bridges that existed between the U.S. and Europe.

Answer 6

Some say that they crossed over from Asia before the Bering Strait was made. They came over on foot by following the animals in which they were hunting.

Answer 7

it depends on the time.. 30,000 years ago.. well the weren't called americans but the ice age made it possible for on foot migrations to the american continent.

but the popular concept (columbus) (no ice age either) was to travel by ship.

indians and the 'first settlers' of columbus weren't the first to set foot on 'american' soil. you would have to go back quite a few thousand years.

best research done by google.com OR any PBS, history station. the earliest migrations are the most interesting actually.

Answer 8

It depends on your definition of the first Americans. the first Americans were not the people who came here from Europe by boat. The first Americans were natives. They came here across the Bering Stait (between Russia and Alaska) by foot across the frozen sea.

Answer 9

Native Americans? They are NATIVE to the land. How did the first Europeans arrive in Europe. How did the first Africans arrive in Africa? NATIVE would be the key word here.
If you are trying to go back to Darwinism or you are on the other side of the fence, trying to go back to Adam and Eve...no one has that answer who is living today..

Answer 10

Here is a site which discusses the "peopling" of North America, by both early humans and by Europeans.

http://www.ucalgary.ca/applied_history/tutor/migrations/