The Cause of the Failure of the Roanoke Colony

question 61

Multiple Choice

The cause of the failure of the Roanoke colony

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

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