The Cause for Failure of the Roanoke Colony

question 16

Multiple Choice

The cause for failure of the Roanoke colony

• A)was due to a severe food shortage.
• B)is historically inconclusive.
• C)deterred English from another colonizing effort for forty years.
• D)resulted from the death of the colony's governor.
• E)was due to a virulent malarial epidemic.

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