Colonization and Revolutionary War: Roanoke The Lost Colony

Why did John White leave the colony at Roanoke in 1587?

• A. He went to investigate Croatoan.

• B. He returned to England for supplies.

• C. He went to go found the Jamestown Colony.

• D. He left to look for his daughter and granddaughter.

Why does the author describe things that White found missing at Roanoke?

• A. to describe how terrible the weather was at Roanoke.

• B. to show how mysteriously the colonists had disappeared.

• C. to argue that John White had landed in the wrong place.

• D. to warn the reader against trying to start a colony.

Why is Roanoke called the Lost Colony?

• A. When John White returned from England, he was unable to find any of the colonists.

• B. The colonists had suffered a tough winter and had lost many people to disease.

• C. When John White returned, he found the colonists wandering around lost.

• D. England lost the colony when the settlers declared their independence.

Read the following sentences: "But John White was delayed in England. He could not return until 1590.

The word delayed means

• A. forced to do something later than planned.

• B. had a job taken away from him.

• C. arrested and put on trial for a crime.

• D. lost and disappeared without a trace.

The passage is mostly about

• A. how the colony of Roanoke disappeared.

• B. the first war between Europeans and Native Americans.

• C. how Roanoke colonists got along with native people.

• D. why European colonies were started in the Americas.

What items did Joh White find missing at Roanoke?