American History of Students :]

The first known inhabitants of what is now the United States are believed to have arrived over a period of several thousand years beginning sometime prior to 15,000 – 50,000 years ago by crossing Beringia into Alaska. These people are known as the indigenous peoples of the Americas. Solid evidence of these cultures settling in what would become United States territory is dated to around 14,000 years ago.Research has revealed much about the early Native American in North America. Christopher Columbus' men were the first documented settlers from the Old World to land in the territory of what is now the United States when they arrived in Puerto Rico during their second voyage in the year 1493. Juan Ponce de León, who arrived in Florida in 1513, is credited as being the first European to land in what is now the continental United States, although some evidence suggests that John Cabot might have reached what is presently new england in 1498.