Introduction

Essential Questions: How did the Columbian Exchange impact the global economy?

What are these people doing? What in the "world" does this have to do with Native Americans, Europeans, Columbus, or any of the other things we have been studying?

Well, they seem to be doing what many of us do every day - shopping. Today, we can buy and trade products from around the world with the click of a button from the comfort of our own home. Buying, trading, and shopping may be easier today; however, it is nothing new. How did the first Europeans get the products they needed? Where and from whom did they get the products?

In this lesson, we will learn about the significant impact trade between the New World and Old World had on society and the economy.

Watch The Effects of the Columbian Exchange:The Exchange Begins (Choose the video The Exhange Begins) to learn the positive and negative consequences of the Exchange. Login instructions

couple shopping

Don't forget the American History Timeline 1500-1876. Take a minute to roll your mouse over the timeline to learn when major events concerning early American history took place.

The Interactive Timeline has buttons for Indians, African Americans, Women, and Labor.

 

Following successful completion of this lesson, students will be able to:

  • Analyze how the Columbian Exhange impacted the global economy.
  • Describe triangular trade and its part in the development of American slavery.
  • Compare European motives for establish colonies including mercantilism, religions persecutions, poverty, oppression, and new opportunities.

The above objectives correspond with the Alabama Course of Study: United States History I: Objectives: 1.

This lesson incorporates the following Literacy Standards: R1, R2, R4, R7, R9, R10, W1, W2, W3, W4, W7, W8, W9, and W10.

 

 

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