The English Colonies

Question 1

Privateers

Answer 1

-legal, hired pirates

Question 2

Sir Walter Raleigh

Answer 2

• very successful privateer
• idea for secret harbor in Caribbean to avoid back + forth to UK
• Queen Elizabeth, current ruler, gives him a deed for wtv land he finds

Question 3

Virginia

Answer 3

• land that Raleigh finds + claims

- becomes privateering station

Question 4

Sir Richard Grenville

Answer 4

-Raleigh’s cousin, in charge, bad leader

Question 5

Roanoke Colony

Answer 5

-Grenville, bad location, bad soil, fail

Question 6

Sir Francis Drake

Answer 6

• successful privateer, invades + takes over Havana

- 1st customer @ Roanoke, finds starving colonists = colony fail

Question 7

John White

Answer 7

• experienced businessman, brings families for farming in 1587
• captain of ship dumps them @ Roanoke
• goes back to England, Spanish Armada is defeated, finally allowed to return to Roanoke in 1590
• Roanoke Colony has disappeared = “Lost Colony of Roanoke”