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This is a game to teach kids about Virginia Dare and the Lost Colony of North Carolina

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What is the name of the wealthy Englishman who decided to explore the new world and sent an expedition that landed on the Outer Banks of NC?

Sir Walter Raleigh

What was the settling place of Walter Raleigh's expedition?

Roanoke Island

In what year did Walter Raleigh's settlement land on Roanoke Island?

1586

Survivors of the Roanoke Colony returned to England for supplies with what man?

Sir Frances Drake

What two Native Americans went to England with Sir Francis Drake?

Manteo and Wanchese

Who was to be the governor of the second Roanoke Colony?

John White

In good weather, how long did the voyage from England to the New World normally take?

6 weeks

True or false - the first expedition from England to Roanoke was men only but the second expedition had men, women, and children.

TRUE

What was the name of the first English child born in the New World?

Virginia Dare

A group set sail from Roanoke back to England to get supplies. They were interrupted by what event?

An attack by the Spanish

When John White returned to the Roanoke Colony how old should his granddaughter, Virginia Dare, have been?

What letters were carved on the tree near the river when John White returned?

CRO

The Roanoke settlement had been built with a large protecting fence around it called what?

Pallasaide

What word was carved near the palisade fence near the Roanoke settlement?

CROATOAN

What word was carved near the palisade fence near the Roanoke settlement?

CROATOAN

What word was carved near the palisade fence near the Roanoke settlement?

CROATOAN