AP U.S. History Period 1:  1491-1607

Key Concept 1.2: Contact among Europeans, Native Americans, and Africans resulted in the Columbian Exchange and significant social, cultural, and political changes on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.

Encounters between Native Peoples and European Colonists

• The French and Indian War

•  Peskeompskut Massacre or Battle of Great Falls

• King Philip's War

• English Settlers and Native Peoples (Massachusetts Grade 5 standard) 

• Cahokia and Etzanoa, Pre-Contact Native American Cities

• Lord Jeffrey Amherst and the Smallpox Blankets 

• Native American Homes  

The Columbian Exchange

Columbus in Sight of Land ~ Issued 1893

Link to more about the Columbian Exchange

The Columbian Exchange is a term used to describe the exchange of goods, disease, cultures and populations during this time. It is also referred to as the Triangle Trade.

Can You Name the Domesticated Plants and Animals of the Columbian Exchange?

The Columbian Exchange, Crash Course video.

  Link to Enslaved and Free African Americans in the 18th Century