Question

What distinguished the Roanoke colony from other colonies along the Eastern seaboard?

Answer 1

It's a waterway that separates present-day Siberia from present-day Alaska; historians theorize that humans made their way across a now-vanished land bridge from Asia to North America

Answer 2

The correct answer is C) it was the first English colony on the New World; the colony dissolved under mysterious circumstances.

What distinguished the Roanoke colony from other colonies along the Eastern seaboard was that it was the first English colony on the New World; the colony dissolved under mysterious circumstances.

English explorer, Sir Walter Raleigh founded the first colony in North America on Roanoke Island, North Carolina., in August 1585. It was the Roanoke colony. They ran out of supplies and some men returned to England. Among them, John White, the governor of the colony. They had to delay their trip back to America because England had to uses all its ships in wars in the war against Spain. Finally, White returned to Roanoke on August 18, 1590, but the entire colony had disappeared in mysterious ways.

The other options of the question were A) it was by far the wealthiest and most successful of the Virginia colonies. B) George Washington's grandfather, Lawrence Washington, founded the colony.