There are many theories on what happened to Roanoke the Lost Colony. That they went underground, settled at a different place, tried to go back home but there’s only one that could’ve happened to them. When John Smith left to go back to England and returned three years later with no people to come back to except for “CROATOAN” carved into a tree. I believe that the English used the buildings to make boats, that there was no war with the Native Americans, and that they sailed to Croatoan.…
John White was finally returning back to Roanoke Island after a three year long supply run to the mother land of England. White a colonist leader of the Roanoke Island settlement had high hopes for a friendly welcoming from his daughter and granddaughter, but he never would have guess that silence would be the scariest sound of them all.…
During 1587 John White and his colony left England to set up camp, and to explore on Roanoke island. White had to leave after getting to the island, and when he came back his colony wasn't there. There are many different theories on how it happened, but this is how i imagined it.…
The Dutch company profited from fur trade, but not many people came so they let a variety of people in the colony. More Dutch, Germans, French, Scandinavians, and other Europeans settled the area. They also included Africans, free and enslaved. They were friendlier with the Natives, unlike the English. They traded them furs and the Dutch were smart enough not to anger the powerful Iroquois, however the Dutch did have fights with smaller tribes over land and trade rivalries.…
After helping the king to establish the first English settlement for the Island of Roanoke, John White then returned to England for food and resources. But the whole plan was delayed because of war for around three years, after the war he returns to Roanoke in 1590, surprisingly he found out that the colonists are gone. It was still a mystery for what happens to…
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In 1587, John White was appointed governor of the first English colony on Roanoke Island. with 115 men, women and children. However they were quickly running low on supplies because of the cold winter. John White left the colony and returned to England to get more supplies. To support the colony he couldn’t return for three years because of the war called Anglo Spanish War and ssa travel was not safe. When he finally returned to Roanoke Island he couldn’t find any of the colonist because their homes were destroyed. One popular theory states that the colonist were killed by Indians and the survivors went to other places to find food, shelter. That is why people call them the Lost Colony back when white returned everyone was gone without a trace.…
In the matter of four years, almost every colonist died in Jamestown. In 1607 English ships sailed The Chesapeake Bay, and later made their way to Jamestown in Virginia. Powhatan Indians. By summer of 1609, 524 colonists would have arrived in Jamestown. But by 1611, over three hundred would be dead! There are three main reasons why this horrible incident happened were; lack of water, lack good workers, and poor relations with the Powhatan Indians.…
- group of settlers landed in 1585 in Roanoke Island NC (off the coast of…
Undoubtedly the mystery of the Roanoke colony disappearance is baffling, but that hasn’t stopped speculations to arise. The first colonists were given two simple rules in their governors absence; carve the word…
In May 1607, three ships sailed up from Chesapeake Bay in search for the first permanent English colony in North America. Although Jamestown colony was doomed from the beginning, it was not so much an outpost as an establishment of what was to become the United States. Forty-five years later, another three ships representing the Dutch Republic and its company, the East India Company, anchored in the Cape of Good Hope. Their purpose was to establish a refreshment station where ships could break the long voyage between the Netherlands and the company’s main settlement at Batavia in Java.…
Narrator- A land of plenty, a people of one. The middle colonies are where we have fun. We allow diversity and call you our friends. The middle colonies are where you want to be till the end.…
Jamestown is located in present day Virginia. These colonists in Virginia were located by the Chesapeake Bay. The colonists met the Powhatan Indians on their journey to Jamestown. The three topics in this essay about these colonists are Disease/Sickness, Weather, and Native American Conflict.…
What I think would have most likely happened in the Roanoke settlement was the settlers died from diseases and famine that started to spread. They weren't prepared for any of these events and they were running low on supplies they needed. They would then be buried and had the word "Croatoan" carved into the tree as paying tribute to their lives in a way. A second possibility is that the settlers decided to move in with the tribe, as the tribe are not hostile and had no hard feelings to them. And the land around them was peaceful and had plenty of natural resources around them to live off of. They would also form an agreement that, in exchange for goods and welfare, they would be welcomed to the tribe. They'd learn about each other's cultures,…
In the 1580’s British established two colonies in North Carolina, both in which they failed. However, In the 1600s permanent settlers from Virginia began to move to North Carolina, and it eventually became part of a British colony known as “Carolina." North Carolina was first settled in 1587 by settlers that were led by John White in which they landed on present day Roanoke Island on July 22, 1587. In 1524 Giovanni de Varrazano was the first European to visit North Carolina. In 1540 Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto explored the southwestern part of the state in search of gold. Sir Walter Raleigh sent several shiploads of people over to establish the New World's first English colony on North Carolina's Roanoke Island between 1584 and 1585 and eventually in 1586 the colonists were forced to return back to England due to the many hardships they were facing. North Carolina had a dangerous coastline so it gave the Spanish a hard time colonizing it, along with the lack of ports, and rivers for them to navigate through. The North Carolina Colony landscape included coastal plains, mountain ranges and plateaus. Farming and agriculture were extremely important to the settlers because of the warm climate and vast farmland. North Carolina was the least commercial colony of the 13…