SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
THE SOUTHERN COLONIES SETTLEMENT AND GROWTH
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Jamestown
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Roanoke
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Georgia
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Plymouth
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Detailed explanation-1: -The first Roanoke colonists did not fare well, suffering from dwindling food supplies and Indian attacks, and in 1586 they returned to England aboard a ship captained by Sir Francis Drake.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Governor, John White, was persuaded to go to England to get more supplies but his return was delayed when war broke out with Spain. By the time he did get back to America in 1590, the settlers had vanished. Nobody knows what happened to these settlers.
Detailed explanation-3: -In 1587 a small colony was founded on an island off the eastern coast of North America. The settlement would have been the first permanent English colony in the New World, had the settlers not disappeared owing to unknown circumstances.