What challenges did early european settlers face in north america?

The language barrier. They thought that they were going to land in Asia. So as such, they must have had people who either spoke or could have written in those languages; but they had no reference to the various tongues and languages of the Americas. Another major challenge were hurricanes, Europeans had never experienced them; their housing architecture wasn't made with this in mind. Then there problems with their crops and agriculture in general. Depending on where they were, the climate and soil would not bear them the crops to which they were accustomed in their homelands. They had nature against them; it was either too dry or flooded; in other places the climate might be perfect, but the soil was sterile.

The challenges that the early European settlers faced in North America were the cold harsh winters, natives and attacks from them. mainly the weather made it very hard to thrive up in the North.