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1.  What were three reasons for England, in the 1500's, to colonize the Americas? 
 
 

2.  Who was the governor the first colony?

3. What was the biggest problem faced by the new colonists? 

4. List at least four reasons Lane decided that the colony should be abandoned. 

5. In what year did a new expedition from England set out for the Americas? 

6. What was different about the colonists who came on the expedition in 1587?

7. The colony was located in .

8.  Why was the captain who brought the colonists to the Americas impatient leave them and sail off to the Spanish Americas?

9.Who was the governor of the new colony?

10. How many people were in the Lost Colony?

80 60 90 More than a 100

12. Why did Queen Elizabeth prohibit the English vessels from leaving British waters?

13.What had happened when Governor John White did return to the colony?

14. Why did Sir Walter Raleigh never order an inquiry into what happened to the Roanoke Colony?

15. Based on your reading hypothesize as to why and to where the first colonists disappeared.

16. There have been recent discoveries relating to the Lost Colony and its relationship with the Native Americans. Where has an important archaeological find been made in North Carolina?

17. The archaeologists at the Buxton site believe that the Native Americans whom Sir Walter Raleigh's English explorers first encountered were .

18. These Native Americans and

to support themselves.

19. The Buxton site marks the maps as the Croatan chiefdom which existed, approximately, between

A.D. 1580's - 1900's  B.C. 3100's - A.D. 0100's

A.D. 1000 's- 1700's  A.D. 1940's - A.D. 2000's

20. Briefly describe the Croatan Society, based on your reading of archeologist Phelp's conclusions:

21. Describe the shelters in which the Coatans are thought to have lived.