USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Spanish were among the first Europeans to explore the New World and the first to settle in what is now the United States. By 1650, however, England had established a dominant presence on the Atlantic coast. The first colony was founded at Jamestown, Virginia, in 1607.

Detailed explanation-2: -Spain was the first of the European countries to colonize the New World. People from France, England, Holland, and Sweden did not settle in the Americas until after 1600. Spain had the advantage of nearly a full century to stake its claims.

Detailed explanation-3: -In 1493, during his second voyage, Columbus founded Isabela, the first permanent Spanish settlement in the New World, on Hispaniola. After finding gold in recoverable quantities nearby, the Spanish quickly overran the island and spread to Puerto Rico in 1508, to Jamaica in 1509, and to Cuba in 1511.

Detailed explanation-4: -Even before Jamestown or the Plymouth Colony, the oldest permanent European settlement in what is now the United States was founded in September 1565 by a Spanish soldier named Pedro Menéndez de Avilés in St. Augustine, Florida.

Detailed explanation-5: -Spanish possessions extended over many parts of what is today the United States from 1513 when Juan Ponce de León first arrived in Florida and claimed the territory for the King of Spain, until 1821 when news of Mexico’s independence from Spain reached Santa Fe.