The Lost Colony
EQ: What English settlement
became known as the Lost
Colony, and why is it called the
Lost Colony?
England Plans to Colonize
England envies the success of _________ &
_______________ exploration
1578 – England’s first attempt to settle in the
New World
Lead by ____________________
Makes ___________ attempts in which he
fails
England’s 2nd Attempt to Colonize -
1584
Organized by _____________________
First Voyage – sends out _________
________________________
________________________
They find a possible location for a colony off the coast of
North Carolina near modern day ___________________
Report back to England & take with them two Native
Americans - ____________________________
Sir Walter Raleigh’s 2nd Voyage –
April, 1585
Lead by _____________________
Sir Richard Grenville & crew reach the
Carolina coast June 16, 1585
_______________________ return with
the crew
Setting Up the Colony
A Rough Beginning
The Tigar runs aground & flooded
Lost most of the supplies
Good News From Nearby
_________________ are discovered nearby
________________ get low and
__________________ returns to England
promising to return in the _____________
Setting Up the Colony Cont . . .
Grenville leaves ___________ in charge
_______________ arrives with supplies
A sudden storm destroys the ship that
___________ had planned to leave
The Colonist are again low on food & supplies
Ralph Lane decides to return to England
________________ returns from England
with food & supplies and finds no one;
therefore, he returns to England
Third & Final Voyage to Roanoke
Lead by ____________________
August 18, 1587 _____________ is born
becoming the first English child born in the
America’s
Lack of food and supplies becomes a
problem
_____________ is forced to return to England
Third & Final Voyage to Roanoke
Cont. . . .
_______________ returns to England to find
them at war with __________________
He is not able to return to ________________
for _____________ years
Upon his return he finds the colony vacant & the
letters ___________ carved on a tree and
_______________ carved on a post
He planned to visit Croatoan island the next day
but a ________ prevents him; thus, he never
learns of the fate of the Roanoke Colony
The Mystery Continues
May 1607, _____________ states “AT
Port Cotage in our Voyage up the River,
we saw a Savage Boy about the age of
ten yeeres, which had a head of haire of
perfect yellow and reasonalbe white
skinne.”
In 1660, _______________ preached in
the Neuse River area to Indians who were
light colored and supposedly spoke Welsh
The Mystery Continues
In 1998 a 16th-century English
__________, a _________ from an
English musket, and two English
________ were found at an archaeological
site on ________________ island