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133 million European-diaspora Americans. 41% of total U.S. population (2017) [1] [a] (as opposed to 235.4 million Americans identifying as White in combination with other races and 204.3 million self-identifying as white) [2] 61.6% of the total U.S. population (2020) Regions with significant populations. Contiguous United States and Alaska.
In 2007, the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of American History and the Virginia Historical Society (VHS) co-organized a traveling exhibition to recount the strategic alliances and violent conflict between European empires (English, Spanish, French) and the Native people living in North America. The exhibition was presented in three ...
1513: Núñez de Balboa claims the Pacific Ocean and its shores for Spain. 1515: Conquest of Cuba completed. 1517: Francisco Hernández de Córdoba lands on the Yucatán Peninsula. 1519: Founding of Villa Rica de la Vera Cruz ( Veracruz) 1519: Álvarez de Pineda explores the Gulf Coast of the United States.
The colonial history of the United States covers the period of European colonization of North America from the early 16th century until the incorporation of the Thirteen Colonies into the United States in 1776 during the Revolutionary War. In the late 16th century, England, France, Spain, and the Dutch Republic launched major colonization ...
His list included 7,193 people who died from atrocities perpetrated by those of European descent, and 9,156 people who died from atrocities perpetrated by Native Americans. [ 5 ] In An American Genocide, The United States and the California Catastrophe, 1846–1873 , historian Benjamin Madley recorded the numbers of killings of California ...
European colonization of the Americas led to the rise of new cultures, civilizations and eventually states, which resulted from the fusion of Native American, European, and African traditions, peoples and institutions. The transformation of American cultures through colonization is evident in architecture, religion, gastronomy, the arts and ...
John Cabot(c.1450–c.1500) was an Italian navigator who was the first European that sailed along to North American coast in 1497 since the Norse 500 years prior. Vasco da Gama(c.1460–1524). Famous Portuguese explorer who sailed to India in 1497–98. He accomplished finding a sea route to Asia which Europeans had been attempting to do for ...
European ancestry in the United States by county (self-reported) in 2020. People of European descent, or White Americans (also referred to as European Americans and Caucasian Americans), constitute the majority of the 331 million people living in the United States, with 191,697,647 people or 57.8% of the population in the 2020 United States census.