Question: When did the first settlers come to america?
Disambiguated questions and answers: question: When did the first settlers come to america through Alaska?
When did the first European settlers come to the americas?
When did the first European settlers come to modern-day america?
answer: shortly after 20,000 years ago
5 December 1492
1500
Natural Questions answer: the 10th or 11th century (from the Wikipedia article "European colonization of the Americas")