1. Warm-Up

2. English Explorers
Francis Drake
Humphrey Gilbert
Walter Raleigh

3. Attempts To Colonize
1585: Roanoke Island, Sir Richard Grenville, leading the expedition of seven ships and 107 men meant to set up the colony.
Ralph Lane: Commander of the colony.

4. 1586
Sir Francis Drake Arrives: Taking back 97 survivors along with Tobacco, Corn, and Potatoes; as well as reports, maps, and drawings which would help the English understand the land for future attempts.
Grenville arrived only days later. Leaving only 15 men to hold the land for England.

10. Second attempt to colonize
This time Sir Walter Raleigh sent a group of 117 colonists including 17 women and 9 boys, led by John White.
When they arrived they found no trace of the 15 men and damage to the colony.
August 18, 1587: Virginia Dare is born.
White Departs on August 27, 1587 to return to England for food and supplies.

12. White returns in 1590
Upon his return John White finds an abandoned colony.
Only CRO and CROATOAN were carved on a post and a tree.

13. Vocab and People Francis Drake Croatoan Plantation Colony
Virginia Dare
John Smith
Charter
Indentured Servant
Jamestown
Walter Raleigh
Separatist
John Rolfe
Manteo and Wanchese
Pilgrim
House of Burgesses
Mayflower Compact
Richard Grenville
William Penn
John White
Quaker
Ralph Lane
James Oglethorpe

14. Video

15. WHAT DO YOU THINK HAPPENED?
Warm Up
WHAT DO YOU THINK HAPPENED?