Who discovered the US?

Christopher Columbus.

History tells us Columbus did but he actually landed in the Caribbean.
Other theories say the Vikings were the first to find North America, others say Irish monks, and still other theories say the Chinese.
The most credible theory? The Vikings.
However Columbus did open up North America to the trading and shipping powers of the time, the British, the Spanish.

Countries are created, not discovered.

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It wasn't discovered. It was created.

Native Americans were the first to find the continent and first to populate it. There is some debate on the timeline, but the Vikings were the first Europeans to find the Americas, or at least develop a settlement. In either case Columbus is not the answer

Probably the Vikings though there are Roman artifacts and structures in South America that seem to be from the pre-BC era.

The natives. They were descended from the original group of humans that arrived there

The US was created, not discovered. As far as "discovering" the land on which the US is located, the first arrivals, by debate, might have been the viking from the east, Pacific islanders from the west, or nomads from the north.

"Discovered" is a relative term.
With the exponential advancement in DNA research, it has been determined that the All of the First Nations people can be traced to about 70 Asians who crossed the Bearing Strait ice bridge, "back in the day". But they were most likely not "exploring" as much as they were migrating and wandering. There is evidence that the Vikings had semi to permanent settlements on the East Coast of North America, but not within US borders. Columbus never really landed within US borders, and seemingly only made continental landfall in Central America on his last voyage. The Spanish actually came looking to populate parts of what is now US territory.
You pick who "discovered" the US, based on your own political agenda.

People before Columbus.

Leif Erikson

The Native Americans.

Some Asians crossed the Bering Strait about 10000 years ago, into what is now Alaska, then slowly migrated south to warmer climate.

THOSE people discovered "America"! ALL of the Americas!!

Didn't need to be 'discovered'. It's been there for ages and already had its own population.

Who uncovered the existence of what would become the Americas for Europe, Asia, and Africa, a.k.a., the known world? Christopher Columbus. The Vikings, specifically Leif Erikson, arrived on what would become American shores some centuries earlier, but the Vikings didn't publish that fact to the rest of the world, so the existence of continents west of Europe and east of Asia remained covered until 1492 when Columbus discovered that existence. As for who was the explorer credited with discovering what would become US soil after Columbus' discovery of the Americas, that would be John Cabot.

Who knows?

vikings came first, then columbus, though America is named after Amerigo Vespucci

It wasn't discovered, it was there all the time, but no one had previously gone that way. It had its native occupants, but it was the Vikings who felt the need to explore and discover.
Before then wanderers were rather scared of falling over the edge and vanishing for ever, silly buggers.

The pilgrims in 1620. That was a year before they invented Thanksgiving.

The Russians did, since they seem to take the credit for Everything anyway.

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Nobody discovered the US because it wasn't a country until 1776. Christopher Columbus encountered the Americas in 1492, but it had been colonised by humans long before that, so nobody knows who first discovered the land that we now call the US.

Those that became the American Indians.

I assume that you are asking who "discovered" North America. Parts of that continent have been called the USA for less than 250 years.

The first humans in any part of the Americas came from Asia about 16,000 years ago, from north-east Asia, and became the ancestors of Native Americans.

It is faintly possible that an expedition of Irish monks saw the coast of North America somewhere around AD 700, but the story is very uncertain.

Norsemen (Vikings) landed on the coast of what is now Newfoundland around AD 1000 and briefly made settlements there but departed because the Native Americans were hostile. They may have sailed somewhat further south along the coast, past parts of what is now the USA, but the notion is uncertain. News of that expedition did not reach Europe in general.

The start of large-scale European invasion and conquest and colonisation started with the voyage by Christopher Columbus in 1492, an Italian captain working for the king of Spain. He "discovered" that continent by accident. That date is the date usually noted as the "discovery" of the Americas by Europeans. Note that Columbus saw only part of the Caribbean, and some of the coasts of Central America - he did not see any part of North America. Note also that the early interest by Europeans was in South and Central America - that is where the riches of silver and gold were. The turn of North America (part of which became the USA) came later.

It was the Native Americans,Inuit, Native Hawaiians and other Indigenous peoples of the U.S.A.

Amerigo Vespucci discovered America in the 16th century. However, he discovered the American continents--North and South America--not the US in particular.

Columbus never even saw the Continent! No one knows who got to North America first, but it is a fact that Leif Erikson had beaten Columbus here by 500 years. Even so, come, Lord Jesus!

NATIVE Americans! They were already there BEFORE the European settlers....

The Seminoles

Natives

The Vikings, some 600 years before Columbus did.

The First Nations people probably. The Vikings possibly.

The people who became the Native Americans.

There were several discoveries. Sibdrians, Norsemen, a well-known Italian. Possibly Polynesians, if they got their first sweet potatoes on a visit.

I don't like to brag, but it was someone I know

The people who migrated that way after the Tower of Babel incident when God confused the languages.

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It is i thought to have been the vikings, but who knows, there were people there before them.

Christopher Columbus was an Italian explorer, navigator, and colonizer. He is a discovered the US, Born in the Republic of Genoa.

throughout history, america was "discovered" by different people.
if i open my mind enough, i, too, might discover america.
on the fourth of july 2017, i was really surprised by the blanket effect of all the people in the community for miles and miles around celebrating our mutual heritage to be americans, i am looking forward to this wednesday's fireworks celebration.

This question so hard to answer

There is evidence that Pre Historic man may have been there. Then there are the Indian tribes who were there for a long time, then the Spanish hit the shores. Then and only then did White people arrive from England and Europe. However, the latter did not discover it but came along after the original inhabitants.

Native Americans crossed over an ice bridge during an ice age period. When the period ended the couldn't return to Europe so the colonized it.

North America was well explored and colonized before the United States became a country.

The first use of the term "United States of America" was in the rough draft of the Declaration of Independence, written by Thomas Jefferson on June 11,1776.

I don't think that really counts as discovering the US, but he gets credit for naming it.

I wonder if he had any idea when he wrote "these united states of America" in the declaration of independence, that he actually named the country? Or was his intention just to describe that the colonies intended to become independent states, united as one nation? I wonder what other names were being considered.

vikings

Early Chines maps carved in stone. Recently. Indicate that they sailed around the world in 20,459 BC. & discovered the world as we know it today. Having claim to all. As they had the first known world map.

It was re-discovered.
The north American continent as well as all the other land masses used to be 1 giant land mass that drifted apart as the planet expanded and the oceans filled in the low lands.
It is believed that the Vikings visited the north American continent long before Columbus landed in the West Indies and then went north to Fla.,the Spanish landed in central America and spread out into north and south America.

I don’t know but if they were still alive and saw who is the president now, I Don’t think they’d be too quick to take credit for it

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Yes

Columbus

Hard question to answer.

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No one the US is an invention, basically of rebels who did not want to abide by the rules.

We let you research this question,some say the vikings, Columbus, native indians,early man,?

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I heard it was the Romans or Vikings.

The vikings, or maybe the native Americans who could be from Asia, or maybe people from South America.

The people who lived there first

Thomas Jefferson and several of his bewigged pals.

The first people in America were people like the Indians. Obviously they were in America for a long time before Europeans turned up.
The first Europeans were the Vikings from Norway who tried to inhabit an area in New Foundland in the 10th century. It was led by Lief Ericson and the Vikings tried to set up a settlement, but they had constant trouble with the local Indians who were trying to drive them away. The Vikings were up against Indians armed with weapons of equal killing power to their own so likely it was a fairly even fight. Eventually the Vikings could see they could not defeat the local Indians so the packed up and moved away colonizing Greenland instead.
The next explorers were the Spanish. Many say Columbus were the next Europeans but the fact is Columbus never ever saw the mainland of the Americas actually discovering the Caribbean which he called the West Indies as he believed that he had discovered another way to Asia. At no time did Columbus ever see the American mainland so saying he discovered America is actually wrong. Makes you wonder why Americans celebrate Columbus day as he definitely never saw North America.
Other Spanish explorers then followed in the late 1400s and early 1500s and were savage against the South American Indians who were no match for the early firearms the Spanish used. The Local Indians of South America were quite civilised and were found to have fantastic quantities of gold and soon the Spanish were stealing gold in huge quantities from the Indian civilisations. Apparently the Spanish actually made it up to Florida and Texas in what is now known as the United States.
The next settlers to colonise America were the British who set up a colony at a settlement called Jamestown in what is now called the state of Virginia. After this the French and British settled in Canada but the French were forced to sue for peace in Europe and had to cede their share in Canada to the British.
In South America the Spanish and the Portuguese took up areas there to set up their own colonies. Finally the Spanish had to cede Texas and Florida to the Americans after battles between them.

Christopher Columbus well duh.....

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Ronald McDonald and John Friendlies.

The United States wasn't discovered. Rebels escaping from Christian persecution in Britain came to the Americans. Then they killed most of the native population and formed the United States in 1776.

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Christopher Columbus discovered the US what it would become and is now but some say the original people to land om america were the vikings personally i find this ridiculous as the Atlantic is far too long to get across in viking ships people underestimate just how gargantuan it is