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History CSI Assignment
US History (1491 ce)
Jackson College
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CSI: Roanoke Final Report!
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####### Exhibit A – Croatoan Carving
Describe what John White found when he returned in 1590:
What assumption can you make about where the colonists went based on this exhibit?!
####### Exhibit B – Lack of A Cross
What did the it mean if a cross had been carved in a tree at Roanoke?
Since there was no cross carved what did John White assume about the Roanoke Colony?!
####### Exhibit C – Chief Manteo BG
How did Manteo treat the Roanoke Colonists?
Where did Manteo live?
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####### Exhibit D – Autopsy Report
Does the autopsy report support or not support the idea that the colonists at Roanoke were attacked?
Why?
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####### Exhibit E – Map of Roanoke
According to the map, what dangers would the inland present to the colonists?
Looking at the map, what is a benefit of the Roanoke Island location?
####### Exhibit F – John White’s Diary
Does John White believe that the colonists were attacked? Why or why not.
What does John White believe happened to the colonists?!
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FBI$Background$Report$
! ! Agent$Reporting: !Agent!Smith!!! Date: !Summer,!1590! ! Location: !Roanoke!Island,!North!Carolina!! Weather: !Humid,!87!F! ! Summary:$ ! More!than!twenty!years!before!the!first!Englishmen!landed!in!Jamestown,! groups!of!colonists!tried!three!times!to!found!a!permanent!colony!at!Roanoke! Island,!off!the!coast!of!presentIday!North!Carolina.! ! In!1585!the!first!colony!on!Roanoke!was!established!by!108!men.!Many!of! them!died!and!the!rest!were!taken!back!to!England!when!Francis!Drake!visited!the! sett lement!and!found!them!starving.!The!month!after!these!colonists!had!left;!a! relief!ship!filled!with!supplies!for!Roanoke!arrived!on!the!island.!Finding!no!one! there,!they!returned!to!England,!but!left!17!men!on!the!island!to!protect!England’s! claim!to!North!America.! ! In!July!of!1587!John!White!led!117!men,!women,!and!children!in!a!third! attempt!to!establish!a!permanent!colony.!When!they!landed!at!Roanoke,!they!found! no!trace!of!the!17!men!who!had!been!left!there!the!previous!year.!White!was!elected! their!governor!and!his!grandchild,!Virginia!Dare,!was!the!first!English!child!born!in! the!new!world.!They!soon!realized!that!they!would!need!more!supplies!because!it! was!too!late!in!the!year!to!plant!crops.! ! Governor!White!returned!to!England!for!supplies,!but!could!not!return!to!the! colony!because!England!was!in!naval!war!with!Spain!at!the!time.!He!did!not!return! to!Roanoke!until!1590—three!years!after!he!had!left.!White!found!no!colonists!on! the!island.!One!of!the!few!clue s!to!this!mystery!was!the!word!CROATOAN!carved!on! a!tree.!He!was!never!to!discover!what!happened!to!his!family!and!the!other!colonists! of!Roanoke.! ! Historians!have!never!solved!the!mystery!of!the!Roanoke!colonist’s!fate.!
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Exhibit B: Lack of A Cross
White had told the settlers that if they were
FORCED to leave the colony, they should
carve a cross above their destination, but no
cross was found.
White wanted to explore the surrounding
islands, including Croatoan, but his ship had
lost its anchor on the voyage across the
Atlantic Ocean. White sailed back to England
without ever having explored other islands or
the nearby mainland.
Exhibit C: Chief Manteo Background
####### Manteo was a Croatoan Indian, the chief of a local
####### tribe that befriended the English explorers that
####### landed at Roanoke in 1584. In 1585 the English
####### returned to Roanoke, arriving too late in the year to
####### plant crops and harvest food, and Manteo helped the
####### colonists to make it through the harsh winter. He
####### traveled to England on two occasions, in 1584 and
####### 1585, and was among those who sailed for the New
####### World in 1587 along with Governor John White and
####### his colonists, who founded the failed settlement later known as "The Lost
####### Colony". On Sunday, August 13, 1587, Manteo was christened on Roanoke
####### Island, making him the first Native American to be baptized.
####### When John White returned to find Roanoke gone in 1590 he was unable to visit
####### Croatoan Island, where Chief Manteo lived. We have no idea what happened to
####### Manteo after that date.
Exhibit'E:'Map'of'Roanoke'and'Surrounding'Area'
Location'of'
Croatoan'Island'
Location'of'
Roanoke'
Island'
(Colony'
Location)
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Mainland'North'Carolina'
(Inland)'
'(Called'Virginia'in'1590)'
Location'of' Hostile'Indians'
Location'of' Hostile' Indians
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Exhibit F: John White’s Diary
####### When John White returned to Roanoke in 1590, he wrote the following:
We passed toward the place where they were [supposed to be], but we
found the houses taken down, and the place very strongly enclosed
with a high palisado [wall] of great trees.. 5 feet from the ground in
capital letters was carved the word CROATOAN without any cross or
sign of distress.
####### And this is what White thought had happend to the colonists:
.. greatly joyed that I had safely found a certain token of their safe
being at Croatoan, which is the place where Manteo was born, and the
Savages of the Iand our friends.
Exhibit H: Tree Rings
Recent study of tree rings in giant bald cypress trees on Roanoke
Island show that the worst drought conditions in the past 800
years may have occurred during the years the “lost colonists”
lived there. Rings estimated from around the 1580’s were very
narrow, indicating poor growing conditions.
####### Note: The width of a tree ring indicates how much a tree has grown in a
####### particular growth season.
Notice how the lines are much thinner in the tree rings during the years the colonists were trying to grow crops at Roanoke.
Possible(Theories(
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Theory(A(
####### The(colonists(were(killed(by(hostile(
####### Indians.(
( Points(to(consider:( •(Many(of(the(Indians(were(friendly( while(John(White(was(there(in(1587( •(Why(did(they(write(CROATOAN?( •(Why(was(there(was(no(white(cross( carved (on(a(tree(to(show(danger(as( agreed?(( •(Where(were(the(bodies?( •(Why(was(there(no(sign(of(battle?( (
Theory(B(
####### The(Roanoke(colonists(moved(to(
####### Croatoan(Island(and(lived(with(the(
####### Indians.(They(later(intermarried(
####### with(the(Indians,(became(part(of(
####### the(tribe,(and(moved(inland(when(
####### the(Indians(did.(
( Points(to(consider:( •(Why(was(there(no(trace(of(fullMblooded( English?( •(Why(would(they(leave(Roanoke(Island( when(they(knew(that(White(was(coming( back((his(family(was(there)?( •(John(Lawson’s(Diary( •(What(does(the(CROATOAN(message( have(to(do(with(this?((
Theory(C(
####### (They(shipwrecked(on(their(way(to(
####### Croatoan(Island.(
( Points(to(consider:( •(This(area(was(very(dangerous(for( sailing.(It(was(known(as(the(“graveyard( of(the(Atlantic”( •(They(only(had(one(regular(sized(ship( with(them.(It(could(not(have(held(over( 100(colonists,(their(supplies,(and( equipment( •(If(they(sailed(close(to(shore,(it(is( unlikely(that(no(one(would(have( survived(and(made(it(to(shore.( •(Why(leave(when(they(believed(White( would(return?(
Theory(D(
####### They(ran(out(of(food(and(moved(
####### inland. (
####### (
Points(to(consider:( •(It(would(be(difficult(to(transport(their( possessions.( •(Indians(would(be(hostile(to(the( colonists(for(taking(over(more(land( –(the( colonists(would(know(this( •(Why(did(they(write(CROATOAN?( •(Why(leave(when(they(believed(White( was(returning?(
Theory(E(
####### They(ran(out(of(supplies,(so(they(built(small(boats(to(sail(back(to(England.(
( Points(to(consider:( •(Even(the(most(desperate(men(would(see(how(foolish(this(plan(is( •(Why(did(they(leave(the(CROATOAN(message?( •(Why(did(they(leave(when(White(was(bringing(them(supplies?(
