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Unit 2: Worlds Meet
Chapter 5: The Settlement of North America
Lesson 2: Roanoke and Jamestown
 
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The Lost Colony

Spain's American colonies made it the country in Europe by the late 1500s. To share the riches, England challenged Spain. An advisor to the queen of England, , obtained a charter to start a colony in Roanoke, Virginia, on land claimed by Spain. Spain sent an armada to invade England and was . The war delayed supplies from reaching Roanoke. When the shipments finally arrived, the colony was . Historians still don't know why Roanoke failed.

A Permanent Colony

In 1606, London merchants convinced King James I to grant a charter for a new colony in Virginia. They sold stocks to investors and was started on an area that already was home to the Tsenacomacoh. Disease-bearing mosquitoes and lack of food and water made life there difficult. If not for leadership, all the colonists may well have died.

Jamestown Begins to Grow

Eight years of peace with the Native Americans was established between Captain John Smith and . England sent governors to control the colonist, and the colonists set up a government. As became a cash crop, colonists relied more and more upon to work the plantations. Later Africans did the labor.

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