Examples of America First in the following topics:
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- North America's first inhabitants were Native Americans -- indigenous peoples who are believed to have traveled to America about 20,000 years earlier across a land bridge from Asia, where the Bering Strait is today.
- (They were mistakenly called "Indians" by European explorers, who thought they had reached India when first landing in the Americas. ) These native peoples were organized in tribes and, in some cases, confederations of tribes.
- Vikings were the first Europeans to "discover" America.
- The people who eventually did settle North America arrived later.
- In 1607, a band of Englishmen built the first permanent settlement in what was to become the United States.
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- The Italian explorer Christopher Columbus (1451-1506) was one of the earliest, and the most well-known, of these European explorers; the first of his four famous voyages from Spain to the Americas began in 1492.
- The indigenous peoples of the Americas are the pre-Columbian inhabitants of North America, Mesoamerica, and South America as well as Greenland.
- Indigenous peoples are commonly known in Canada as Aboriginal peoples, which include First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples.
- Scientists believe that migrations of humans from Eurasia (the combined continental landmass of Europe and Asia) to the Americas first took place via Beringia, a land bridge which formerly connected the two continents across what is now the Bering Strait.
- Sebastian Munster's Map of the New World, first published in 1540
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- America was inhabited by humans long before the first European set foot on the continent.
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there is general agreement that the Americas were first settled from Asia, the pattern of
migration, its timing, and the place(s) of origin in Asia of the peoples who
migrated to the Americas remain unclear.
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archeological evidence suggests that the Paleo-Indians' first dispersal into
the Americas occurred near the end of the LGM.
- The Clovis culture permeated much of North America and parts
of South America.
- As time went on, many of these first immigrants developed permanent settlements.
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- The Americas were settled long before Europeans set foot on the continents.
- Scholars today disagree about this time period, and a number of wildly different theories exist regarding the ancestry of the first people to inhabit the Americas, as well as the paths they took to settlements subsequently discovered by archaeologists.
- Exactly when the first group migrated to the Americas is the subject of much debate.
- The first is the short chronology theory, with the first movement beyond Alaska into the Americas occurring no earlier than 14,000 to 17,000 years ago, followed by successive waves of migration.
- The hypothesis suggests that the Clovis people of North America could have inherited technology from the Solutrean people, who lived in southern Europe 15,000 to 21,000 years ago and created the first Stone Age artwork in present-day southern France.
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- While the Americas remained firmly under the control of indigenous peoples in the first decades of European invasion, conflict increased as colonization spread and Europeans placed greater demands upon the indigenous populations, including expecting them to convert to Christianity (either Catholicism or Protestantism).
- Columbus' initial landing and first mainland explorations were followed by a phase of inland expeditions and conquests in the Caribbean and South America, where the first European settlements occurred in the New World.
- It was the first step in a long campaign—which took advantage of a recent civil war and the enmity of indigenous nations the Incas had subjugated—that required decades of fighting to subdue the mightiest empire in the Americas.
- Later, in 1534, Francis sent Jacques Cartier on the first of three voyages to explore the coast of Newfoundland and the St.
- Cartier attempted to create the first permanent European settlement in North America at Cap-Rouge (Quebec City) in 1541 with 400 settlers, but the settlement was abandoned the next year after bad weather and native attacks.
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- Spain put limited efforts into exploring the northern part of the Americas as its resources were concentrated in Central and South America where more wealth had been found.
- This was the first war fought largely, on the English side, by purpose-built, state-owned warships.
- England's first permanent settlement in the Americas was founded in 1607 in Jamestown, led by Captain John Smith and managed by the Virginia Company.
- Map of the British colonies in North America, 1763 to 1775.
- First published in: Shepherd, William Robert (1911) "The British Colonies in North America, 1763–1765" in Historical Atlas, New York, United States: Henry Holt and Company, p. 194.
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- In practice the phrase usually is used to denote the entire history of American indigenous cultures until those cultures were conquered or significantly influenced by Europeans, even if this happened decades or centuries after Columbus's first landing.
- Some of these civilizations had long faded by the time of the first permanent European and African arrivals (c. late 15th–early 16th centuries), and are known only through archaeological investigations.
- Indigenous peoples of the Americas continue to evolve after the pre-Columbian era.
- By the first millennium, South America's vast rainforests, mountains, plains, and coasts were the home of tens of millions of people.
- Simple map of subsistence methods in the Americas at 1000 BCE.
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- The indigenous peoples of the Americas are the pre-Columbian inhabitants of North and South America and their descendants.
- Over two-thirds of all types of food crops grown worldwide are native to the Americas.
- This created the Pre-Columbian savannas of North America.
- Some of these civilizations had long faded by the time of the first permanent European and African arrivals (c. late 15th–early 16th centuries), and are known only through archaeological investigations.
- Evaluate the diverse cultures and inventions of pre-Columbus civilizations in the Americas.
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- The first group of Peace Corps volunteers departed for the four corners of the globe in 1961, serving as an instrument of “soft power” in the Cold War.
- Kennedy's most well known act regarding Latin America was the Alliance for Progress, which aimed to establish economic cooperation between the U.S. and Latin America.
- Economic assistance to Latin America nearly tripled between fiscal years 1960 and 1961.
- Between 1962 and 1967, the U.S. supplied $1.4 billion per year to Latin America.
- However, Latin American countries still had to pay off their increasing debt to the U.S. and other first-world countries, limiting their financial independence.
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- British colonization of the Americas began in 1607 in Jamestown, Virginia, and reached its peak when colonies had been established throughout the Americas.
- Other colonies in the rest of the Americas followed at a much slower pace.
- In this way, two countries in North America, ten in the Caribbean, and one in South America have received their independence from the United Kingdom.
- Most notable among these was the Virginia Company, which created the first successful English settlement at Jamestown and the second at St.
- British colonies in North America, 1763 to 1775, published in 1911.