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History of the United States

Many peoples have contributed to the development of the United States
of America, a vast nation that arose from a scattering of British
colonial outposts in the New World. The first humans to inhabit the
North American continent were migrants from northeast Asia who
established settlements in North America as early as 8000 BC and
possibly much earlier (see NORTH AMERICAN ARCHAEOLOGY). By about AD
1500 the native peoples of the areas north of the Rio Grande had
developed a variety of different cultures (see INDIANS, AMERICAN). The
vast region stretching eastward from the Rocky Mountains to the
Atlantic Ocean was relatively sparsely populated by tribes whose
economies were generally based on hunting and gathering, fishing, and
farming.

VIKINGS explored the North American mainland in the 10th and 11th
centuries and settled there briefly (see VINLAND). Of more lasting
importance, however, was the first voyage (1492-93) of......

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