Read the Text and Table to Answer the Questions

Name ______Date ______Period ______United States History I Columbian Exchange Read the text and table to answer the questions.

1. Answer A-D based on the text above: A. What is the Columbian Exchange? ______B. When did the Columbian Exchange begin? ______C. Who did the Columbian Exchange affect? ______D. Why was the Columbian Exchange important? ______

2. For each cause below, list a direct effect and an indirect effect. A. Europeans inadvertently bring diseases to the New World. ______B. Europeans bring horses to the New World. ______C Europeans introduce domesticated livestock to the New World. ______D. Native Americans introduce Europeans to new crops. Name ______Date ______Period ______United States History I ______

3. Describe a cultural idea that Europeans brought to the New World. Explain how it was positive and how it was negative. ______

4. Explain why European contact with the New World is described as a "turning point" in Native American history. ______

5. List three different groups of people that benefited from the Columbian Exchange and for each group, describe one way they benefited. ______

6. List three different groups of people that suffered from the Columbian Exchange and for each group, describe one way they suffered. ______

7. Describe and give at least two examples of how the Columbian Exchange impacted: A. Population ______B. Migration ______Name ______Date ______Period ______United States History I Item Direction Why Effect Effect Effect Horse OW to NW It was a Made Provided Horses faster conquest of Native became transportati Native Americans a domesticate on method Americans more d and used easier for effective for farming Europeans way to hunt buffalo Livestock, OW to NW These were Animals Farming Huge cattle including domesticate over grazed became ranches and pigs, cattle, d animals and more cattle drives and (Not wild) destroyed efficient and increase the chickens many crops dependency westward and ground on farming movement cover increased of people across America Potatoes NW to OW These crops Helped feed Dependency Became a and corn are growing on potatoe staple of inexpensive population crop caused diets to grow and in Europe; famine worldwide; are became when they fed many nutritious important failed, people and crops for causing may allowed population Irish to people to growth immigrate live longer Sugar OW to NW It tastes Became a Europeans Europeans good part of diets forced brought everywhere Native Africans to Americans be slaves to work on after Native sugar population plantations decreased Disease OW to NW Native Killed nearly European Africans Americans 95% of all settlers were had no Native were able to brought to immunity to Americans take Native the New disease like American World as smallpox lands more slaves easily Concept of OW to NW Native Europeans Native Native land Americans settled on Americans Americans ownership did not view Native did not were forced land as American grasp the to relocate ‘owned’ – lands concept of from their Europeans land homes to did ownership reservations until much of their land Name ______Date ______Period ______United States History I was gone Gold NW to OW European European Many Native European explorers explored Americans countries were enslaved died from had more expected to many Native the harsh money to find gold Americans conditions spend on and send it and forced inflicted by goods from to their them to the other countries mine for Europeans countries gold