The Oxford dictionary defines history as "the branch of knowledge that records and analyzes past events." One philosopher comments, "History has a long-range perspective..." There is no specific point that one can judge exactly where the history of the United States might have begun. The avarice for money, desire for expansion and even for freedom caused Europeans such as the English, French, Spanish and Dutch to begin their colonization into the New World. These fundamental motives coupled with social and economic unrest that caused a mass migration of variety of Europeans to settle in America. Thus it can be said that the history of these groups are also America's. While all the immigration was in process, there was a group of people who already existed in America, the Native Americans. Therefore the history of the United States began by the Native Americans. From the time the Europeans had set foot on the New World, it was these Europeans who drove the course of history of the United States as well as for the years to come.

Christopher Columbus was a Spanish navigator who sailed west across the Atlantic Ocean in search of a route to Asia, but achieved fame by discove

As early Europeans first stepped ashore in what they considered the New World, the peoples indigenous to the Americas usually welcomed them. The Native Americans seemed to regard their visitors as something of a curiosity, not only because of their clothes, beards, and winged ships but even more for their technology especially the knives, swords, cannons, mirrors and etc. Nonetheless, the Natives soon recognized that the Europeans themselves were very human. White Europeans were frequently accused of being stingy with their wealth and avaricious in their insatiable desire for beaver furs and deer hides. Likewise, the Natives were surprised at European intolerance for native religious beliefs, sexual and marital arrangements, eating habits, and other customs. At the same time, the Natives became puzzled when Europeans built permanent structure of wood and stone, thus precluding movements. For the Natives, they began to see their land taken over by outsiders and see it go out of control.

The English also had ambitious beings that wanted to raise a fortune. The first group from England to the New World was led by John Smith and settled in Virginia in 1607. This group of people wanted to trade and make profit by growing tobacco. They earned huge amount of money as more people in England got addicted to tobacco and so more shipping was required. Other groups that left for the New World were the pilgrims who were led by William Bradford and the puritans who were led by John Winthrop ten years later. These two groups sought for religious freedom that could be found in the New World. For these groups of people, the New World was a place where they could live in religious freedom and with their own standards. They did not enjoy their religious lives back in England and more people sought for religious freedom and decided to immigrate to the New World. The puritans did set up a model for all too read called, 'city u

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