{"id":22821,"date":"2022-01-27T18:56:28","date_gmt":"2022-01-27T17:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/u3ajavea.com\/info\/?post_type=mec-events&#038;p=22821"},"modified":"2022-02-26T20:24:26","modified_gmt":"2022-02-26T19:24:26","slug":"english-colonisation-of-north-america-mayflower-and-a-whole-lot-more-2","status":"publish","type":"mec-events","link":"https:\/\/u3ajavea.com\/info\/events\/english-colonisation-of-north-america-mayflower-and-a-whole-lot-more-2\/","title":{"rendered":"English Colonisation of North America: Mayflower and a Whole Lot More"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Speaker: Peter Atkinson<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>English&nbsp;interest in North America began with John Cabot, a contemporary of Columbus, who sailed to Newfoundland in 1497 in search of a route to Asia. &nbsp;The first attempts at settlement came a century later and were unsuccessful. &nbsp;The most ambitious failure was in the 1580s under Walter Raleigh at Roanoke Island in today\u2019s North Carolina. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/u3ajavea.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Jamestown-Virginia-1613-1024x633.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-22818\"\/><figcaption>Jamestown, Virginia, 1613<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The first successful colony was Jamestown (Virginia), established in 1607 by economic migrants. &nbsp;The second was at Plymouth (Massachusetts), founded by settlers arriving on&nbsp;<em>Mayflower&nbsp;<\/em>in 1620, escaping religious persecution in England. &nbsp;By 1750, the British had 13 colonies (soon to become the first 13 members of the United States) on the eastern seaboard between Georgia and Maine, together with two in present-day Canada: Nova Scotia and Newfoundland.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The presentation will examine the origins and development of these colonies, with some emphasis on Jamestown and Plymouth. &nbsp;Reference will also be made to the parallel activities of the Spanish, French, and Dutch<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Peter Atkinson English&nbsp;interest in North America began with John Cabot, a contemporary of Columbus, who sailed to Newfoundland in 1497 in search of a route to Asia. &nbsp;The first attempts at settlement came a century later and were unsuccessful. &nbsp;The most ambitious failure was in the 1580s under Walter Raleigh at Roanoke Island in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"mec_category":[287],"mec_speaker":[],"class_list":["post-22821","mec-events","type-mec-events","status-publish","hentry","mec_category-history-talks"],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u3ajavea.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec-events\/22821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u3ajavea.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec-events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u3ajavea.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/mec-events"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u3ajavea.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u3ajavea.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u3ajavea.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22821"},{"taxonomy":"mec_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u3ajavea.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec_category?post=22821"},{"taxonomy":"mec_speaker","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u3ajavea.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec_speaker?post=22821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}