Final answer:
Sir Walter Raleigh suggested Roanoke Island as the first English colony to Queen Elizabeth I in 1584. The colony founded on Roanoke Island is also known as the 'lost colony' because it was abandoned and the word 'Croatoan' was found carved into a fence.
Step-by-step explanation:
Sir Walter Raleigh suggested Roanoke Island as the first English colony to Queen Elizabeth I in 1584.
Queen Elizabeth I gave Raleigh a charter to establish a colony in North America as an ideological counterweight to Spanish Catholicism in the Americas and as a base for privateering expeditions against Spanish shipping.
The colony founded on Roanoke Island is also known as the 'lost colony' because when the governor, John White, returned to England for supplies, he found the colony abandoned with the word 'Croatoan' carved into a fence surrounding the village.