in the sixteenth century Europeans started to come to america, and soon after that, they brought slaves from america to work for them. Large numbers of immigrants continued to arrive from all over the world until the middle of the twentieth century. The empty land was now full of people, speaking different languages and with different ideas. there are just three countries now in north america - Canada, Mexico and the USA - but there were nearly several more. And the 300 million people who live in the fifty states of the united state are not all the same. About 67 per cent are white, 13 per cent Hispanic (Spanish-speaking),13 per cent black, 4 per cent Asian and just 1 per cent Naive American. Most of them speak English,but it is not the same English as people speak in Britain, and many Americans speak Spanish as their fist language.