The first settlers in north america were from which area of the world

The first settlers in North America were from Europe. During the 10th and 11th centuries the Vikings from Scandinavian villages in Sweden, Norway and Denmark sailed west crossing the North sea and the Atlantic Ocean. The first settlement in North America was in the coast of present day Newfoundland in northeastern Canada, by the year A.D. 1001.

the committees of correspondence were the american colonies’ means for maintaining communication lines in the years before the revolutionary war. in 1764, boston formed the earliest committee of correspondence to encourage opposition to britain’s stiffening of customs enforcement and prohibition of american paper money. the following year, new york formed a similar committee to keep the other colonies notified of its actions in resisting the stamp act. in 1773, the virginia house of burgesses proposed that each colonial legislature appoint a committee for intercolonial correspondence. the exchanges that followed built solidarity during the turbulent times and bring about the formation of the first continental congress in 1774.