The First Americans Many peoples have contributed to the development of the United States of America. America is known as the melting pot because it has always been a nation composed by immigrants of all races . The first humans to inhabit the North American continent were migrants from northeast Asia and the Pacific Islands who established settlements in North America as early as 8000 BC and possibly much earlier. These migrants drifted in small groups to …showed first 75 words of 1972 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1972 total…a woman. To help make up for the Indians' labor lost through conquest and epidemic, Europeans brought in Africans slaves, who added to the cultural diversity of America. Conflicts in the old world spilled over into the New as different nations got into the race for colonies. By the end of the sixteenth century, the age of discovery was all but over, and the great era of colonization, especially English colonization was about to begin.