All of the following problems plagued the effort to establish a permanent colony of Roanoke in the late 1580s by Walter Raleigh and his English colonists EXCEPT
A) colonists settled on land in and near areas that were claimed and populated by hostile Algonquian Indians.
B) the failure of resupply ships to return to Roanoke in 1588 because of an impending threatened naval attack of Spain against England.
C) a catastrophic drought between 1587 and 1589 creating food shortages and increased tensions with local Indians.
D) despite ample land incentives for families to settle in Roanoke, it became nearly exclusively a colony of men.
Answer: D
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