Mexico, Spain, France...and of course, Great Britian all governed/owned parts of America. The Dutch established New Netherland which included parts of present day New York. Russia established colonies along the Northern Pacific - primarily Alaska in the 18th and 19th centuries.

AI claims that the Paleo-Indians from Siberia across Beringia, a land bridge connecting Asia and North America approximately 30,000 years ago were the first culture in America.

Every land mass on this globe has had grappling over the possession of said land. In 1776 the melting pot - Italians, Irish, British, Chinese, Hispanic, Indigenous (because you apparently are neglecting the part of your history that illustrates the Native Americans who fought WITH colonists to usurp the British Empire) basically human beings from all over the globe that had made it to the new world - claimed the land to toss out the oppressors.

Tired of all those who re-write history - the receipts of what transpired still exist - any decent genealogist, archeologist, and historian can show you - as long as they are honest and don't toss in some fake woke narrative.