North America was an uninhabited land before the year 1492, except for two groups of natives. One of the two groups was the Hopewell people, which was an Eastern farming culture. The second group was the Anasazi people, they followed the South-Western farming culture.
It was the expedition of the explorer Christopher Columbus that began the colonization of North and South America. He brought many settlers with him and they colonized in the Americas, expanding the territories.
There were three modern day countries that dominated the colonization of the Americas. These three were Spain, France, and Great Britain. They became almost like the government in the Americas. In the year of 1781 the American colonies joined together and became a united colony