The Cause of the Failure of the Roanoke Colony

question 12

Multiple Choice

The cause of the failure of the Roanoke colony

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

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