These movements led to the formation of several countries. Spain, France and Britain established territories in North America and, by the late 18th and early 19th centuries, these territories were hosting independence movements, most famously the American War of Independence. This began an era of colonization in which European nation states took over great swaths of the Americas. Returning to our most famous North America facts, it is true that Columbus discovered the Americas for Spain in 1492. Europe Colonized North America in the Age of Discovery North America Colony Map in 1700
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