Christopher Columbus – Primary
Sources
Warm Up - Answer in your warm-up section
What was the Columbian Exchange?
What invisible item was transported in the
Columbian Exchange?
What you should have completed on page 22
Page 22
“Columbian
Exchange Map”
What you should have completed on page 23
Columbian Exchange Impact
Positives
Negatives
1) Which side had more positive goods exchanged and why?
2) Which side had more negatives and why were the exchanges so harmful?
3) What was the overall effect of the Columbian Exchange?
Age of Exploration Study Guide
Record the following terms on pages 24.
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Silk Road
Christopher Columbus
Importance of Portugal
Da Gama
Magellan
Cabot
New Technology
Transatlantic Slave Trade
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Middle Passage
Columbian Exchange
Gold, God, & Glory
Prince Henry
New World
Old World
Northwest Passage
Today is Columbus Day!
Columbus Day is a U.S. holiday that
commemorates the landing of
Christopher Columbus in the New
World on October 12, 1492. It was
unofficially celebrated in a number of
cities and states as early as the 18th
century but did not become a federal
holiday until the 1937. For many, the
holiday is a way of both honoring
Columbus’ achievements and
celebrating Italian-American heritage.
Columbus Video
● You are responsible for
the following during the
video:
3-2-1
●3 things Columbus did
●2 questions you still have about
Columbus
●1 thing you found the most
interesting
RAD Strategy
●When a good historian is asked a question, he
or she answers in a complete thought. The
answer to a question should include all
information so that the reader does not need
to know the question in order to understand.
●We will use the RAD strategy to do this.
Copy this chart in your notebook on page 25
“RAD Strategy”
R- restate
A- answer
D-detail
Example:
How did Christopher Columbus treat the
American Indians?
Christopher Columbus treated the American
Indians poorly by capturing them, enslaving
them and violently killing them.
Let’s Practice
● Use the RAD (Restate, Answer, Detail) strategy to
answer the following question:
● What is your favorite subject?
Underline where you restated the question.
Circle your answer.
Put a box around the details.
Do you
have all
3 parts?
Find Analyzing Primary Sources - Practice
in Google Classroom
●We will examine the first source together.
●After we read, answer the questions with your
table using the RAD strategy.
●Record the answers in your notebook.
Let’s Practice with Sources
● SOURCE ONE: “Columbus and the Indians”-An excerpt from A Young
People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn. Copyright: 2009
Columbus’ promises [to the King and Queen of Spain, of gold and slaves]
won him seventeen ships and more than 1,200 men for his second
expedition. The aim was clear: slaves and gold. They went from island to
island capturing Indians… Columbus’ men searched Haiti for gold, with no
success. They had to fill up the ships with something, so in 1495 they went
on a great slave raid.
Two hundred slaves [out of 500] died on the voyage to Spain. Too many
slaves died in captivity. Columbus was desperate to show a profit on his
voyages. He had to make good on his promise to fill the ships with gold.
Columbus and his men ordered everyone over the age of 13 to collect gold
for them. Indians who did not give gold to the Spaniards had their hands cut
off and bled to death.
Responding with RAD – Respond in your
notebook
1. Is “Columbus and the Indians” a primary or secondary
source?
1. Why did Columbus go on the Great Slave Raid?
1. Why was Columbus desperate to find gold?
Let’s Share and Discuss
SOURCE TWO: Thomas de Bry Paintings-Paintings created in the 1500’s to illustrate
books about the explorers. De Bry never visited the Americas.
Respond to these questions using RAD
5. Based on these paintings, what happened to the Indians? (Use
details from the paintings)
6. Columbus and his men were desperate to find gold for the
King and Queen. Do you think they explained how they tried to
get the gold?
Let’s Share and Discuss
Analyzing Sources – Individual work
1. Find Source Documents CC
2. Examine the sources
3. Answer the questions on the document in
Google Classroom
BE SURE TO USE RAD STRATEGY TO
ANSWER ALL QUESTIONS!
Exit Ticket
1.Why do we use the RAD strategy to answer questions?
a.It helps us give COMPLETE answers to questions
b.It allows someone who has not read the question to understand
the answer
c.It allows us to give an answer and an explanation
d.All of the above
1.Which of the following statements best describes Columbus’
treatment of the Indians?
a.He was kind to them
b.He established trade relations with them
c.He enslaved them and forced them to look for gold
d.He allowed them to rule the Spanish colonies in the New World
Columbus – Hero or Villain?
●Based on what you learned today, do you
think Christopher was a hero or a villain?
Explain your answer.