Advanced Placement United States History

Newfoundland & Roanoke

• Sir Humphrey Gilbert 1583


• Gilbert goes down with his ship on return trip


• Newfoundland becomes important for East India Trading Company 1700s

• Sir Walter Raleigh


• Goal = northwest passage, Spanish gold


• Goal ≠ settlement


• Governor Ralph Lane


• Mostly soldiers


• Lack of food ( dependence on natives


• Bad relationship with natives


• One year later, ready to give up – Sir Francis Drake


• Pirating in Caribbean

• John White (granddaughter = first American-born English citizen)


• Goal = settlement in Chesapeake


• Landed in Roanoke instead


• White returns to England


• (Spanish Armada)


• 1590 White returns – colony gone

• Gone native? Some evidence, but all evidence is easily explained by other means.


• Destroyed by natives?  No sign of struggle or of emergency signal (a cross carved into the fort)


• Gone to Chesapeake?  No sign or record of civilization in Chesapeake, though some rumors of a European civilization destroyed by Powhattan.

posted by Jeffrey @ Monday, October 10, 2005