First Colonies

Roanoke was located off the shore of this current US state:

• Alabama

• Georgia

• North Carolina

• California

True or False: Roanoke was the very first PERMANENT settlement in "The New World."

• True

• False

Who did the Queen of England send out from 1584-1585 to find places in the New World to Colonize?

• Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• Sir Elton John
• Sir Walter Raleigh
• Sir Mixalot

Roanoke is also called

• The Mysterious Island

• The Amazing Disappearing Colony

• North Carolina

• The Lost Colony

What word did John White find carved in a tree when he returned?

• Roanoke
• Crowman
• Help
• Croatan

Why was colony of Roanoke called the lost colony?

• The people returned to England.
• The colonist were gone when the other colonists came back.
• They moved to Jamestown.
• The colonist kept losing supplies and couldn't find anything!

Why did it take John White 3 years to return to Roanoke?

• Boats moved a lot slower back then

• The Brittish were in a war with Spain so all of the boats were being used in the war

• It took him a very long time to find the food and weapons he wanted to bring back with him

What happened to the colonists of Roanoke

• They made friends with the natives and moved away

• They starved to death

• They were captured by the Spanish

• They were in a war with the Native's and killed

• All of these answers could be correct

What time period did Roanoke and Jamestown take place?

• Late 1500's and early 1600's

• Between the 1700's and 1800's

• Around 200 BC

The first permanant settlement in North America was

• Jamestown

• Roanoke

• Washington DC