An Outline of American HistoryChaper 1 Early America The First Americans Beringia The First Europeans: The first Europeans to arrive in North America - at least the first for whom there is solid evidence - were Norse, traveling west from Greenland . In 1497, just five years after Christopher Columbus landed in the Caribbean looking for a western route to Asia, a Venetian sailor named John Cabot arrived in Newfoundland on a mission for the British king. Although fairly quick
