First recorded use of the term “American” for people of European descent living in North America appeared in this year.
- 1648
- 1666
- 1692
- 1776
1648. The term was originally applied to the indigenous inhabitants of the New World. By 1648 it was used by Thomas Gage in “The English-American: A New Survey of the West Indies” in its modern usage.
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