03-15-2016, 01:50 PM
(03-15-2016, 01:38 PM)bfine32 Wrote: Of course I could say the Norse were the first to arrive in the country, so yeah, it's splitting hairs because someone wanting to make money built a store first. Most understand the Principles the Founding Fathers built these Nation on.
The Pilgrims and our Founding Fathers are two different groups separated by about 150 years. I was responding to this:
(03-15-2016, 12:50 PM)bfine32 Wrote: The Pilgrimns were Christians and they founded this Nation
and then this:
(03-15-2016, 12:58 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Pilgrims were the first Europeans to make permanent settlements here,
The Norse did not establish permanent settlements and they did not, as far as we now, make it into what became the 13 original colonies. The first permanent settlement in the English colonies was Jamestown. The Spanish had a settlement in Florida already, I believe. Both of these were business ventures. That is what this country was founded on. The Pilgrims did not found this country, and they were not the first permanent settlement.
