Who found the United States of America, FIRST?

Question

I know that Amerigo Vespucci was named after it, but how really found AMERICA, not the indies, not south america, THE U.S.A?
I need to write a paper and i dont know what to put down.

Answer 1

I thought Amerigo Vespucci did.
Honestly he coulden't have founded it though, it was already inhabited by the Indians. Meaning we Americans came and stole the land because we are greedy bastards!
Put that in your report! It's true.

Answer 2

The United States. Democratic status. Was the source of the controversy at Valley Forge. The founding fathers were democratic. The people who wanted a republic almost starved the entire American army out to prove their point. Then it was set up as a democracy for the people and Thomas Jefferson ended up speaking a lot about it. Then these losers called the puratins came in, representing the republic (big businesses). They fought for almost 100 years to reverse the constitution and all the equal rights stuff. Now you see it, they still try to make it a nazi or king james state. But most of what they have done is public. Because of their joker mentality, now many huge financial industry based entities have more power then people and actually contradict what America stands for. America is supposed to be a democracy, but because of the corrupt idiots who took unrestrained actions. Some things like the federal government. Even though they are a corporation. As a ruling body. It's just a mish mash of good people and dirty people who support business over people.

Answer 3

Well first of all, USA stands for United States of America and it was not discovered, it was created. Second, there are many schools of thought as to where the first humans in the Americas came from and how people spread over these two continents. Some say that pacific islanders came to south America first, and spread out of the south American continent to north America. Others say that every human in these two continents (the first immigrants) came over the Asian land bridge during the last ice age. And some say that many migrated from Europe during the ice age as well. Others hold that it was a combination of all three. Some civilizations flourished for years building cities and great nations only to die off mysteriously, others just remained nomadic and relatively primitive. But there is no real agreement on the true discovery of the Americas, only opinions. Some are more valid than others.

Answer 4

I think this was just an innocent typo, but I'll say it just in case. The USA was named after Americo Vespucci, not the other way around. But to answer your question. The first people to discover the land that is now the USA (it wasn't at this point in time, though) were probably the Native Americans. If you are going along with the theory that the Native Americans came to this area of the world via the Bering Strait, then I would go with them. However, if you are looking for the first European discovery of the continent, the credit goes to Leif Erikson, a Viking from Iceland. He technically discovered Canada (most likely Newfoundland), but I'm sure you can work him into your paper somehow. I hope I've been a help!

Answer 5

Theories as to the identity of the earliest North American cultures come largely from the remains they leave behind. Stone tools such as flint-made spear points are often discovered and as their shape and design varies between different cultural groups, they reveal quite a lot. Two theories are prominent in the debate over the origins of these first people.
In the 1930s, archaeologists discovered spear points in the New Mexico town of Clovis, dated at around 13,000 years old. The individuals who made them have since become known as the 'Clovis people' and are believed by many to have been the first people to enter North America.
The 'Clovis first' theory proposes that around 14,000 years ago people travelled across a land bridge that existed between Siberia and Alaska. Once in North America, their journey took them through a corridor that opened up between the ice sheets in Western Canada making them the first to be able enter the interior of the continent. It's an elegant and almost biblical explanation, but more recent fossil finds question the theory. Some researchers believe the first people entered North America much earlier - perhaps as long as 20,000-30,000 years ago.


In more recent years, the Pacific coast has been seen as an alternative route of entry - possibly at an earlier date than the Clovis. There is little direct evidence to support this, but fossil evidence from the islands of south-east Alaska tell us that this region, or part of it, was free of ice and may have been a refuge for animals throughout the ice age.
If animals such as bears and foxes lived here then why not people? Fossilised human remains have been found on Alaska's Prince of Wales Island and much further south on the Channel Islands off California. These are thought to be as old as some of the Clovis finds and it may only be a matter of time before older remains are discovered.

If people did travel down the coasts between islands, they must have used boats. Although the coastal route still lacks a lot of hard evidence, the relatively recent discovery of a stone tool off the coast of British Columbia has added support to the idea.








It's more than just an argument of who got there first. The origins of the first people may tell us much about the skills they would have had. Proponents of the 'Clovis first' theory believe the first people walked from Siberia over the course of several generations. Supporters of the coastal route suggest they may have come from the other side of the Pacific Ocean - from north-east Asia.
To have come across the sea, they would have needed boats and would have been dependent on marine resources. They were evidently skilled land hunters and had some fearsome weapons, including a wooden handheld stick called an atlatl, used to launch spears over tens of metres. Recent discoveries of 'soft technology' or degradable objects such as clothing, tell us that these first people could sew. They were able to make fitted clothing and boots and probably had outfits for different seasons.

So, whoever and wherever these first arrivals came from, they appear far more advanced and versatile than the cliché of spear-throwing stone-age man would have us believe.

Answer 6

No-one can say who found any country First & really does it matter ?. America was settled first by the English who established themselves under the flag of England and defended it until it became established as yet another colony , the same as places like Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Most of Africa, China, India, etc. etc....Now England dos'nt matter too much anymore either, except as a staunch friend !

Answer 7

The Neolithic people that walked across the land bridge over the Bering Straights during the Ice Age.

Answer 8

Well, no one has proved that they found America.
But most likely, it's the portugal Explorers..

Answer 9

I don't know who was the first Europen to arrive in what is now the US. The US is not named after Amerigo Vespucci, it was named after the continent (that now you deny that exist) that was named after Vespucci in 1507, when no European had settled in the US yet.

Answer 10

The very first while ppl where the vikings from Norway in the 11th century. there are ruins all over eastern canada. They called it 'Vineland".