The Columbian Exchange was the transfer of ideas, plants, people, and crops between the new and Old World.
Something good about the Columbian Exchange was the new plants that were brought to America. Before things like rice and horses were in the New World, but new things like corn and cattle were introduced.
The bad thing was the slave trade. Because of the new crops being introduced, slaves were needed to plant, tend to , and harvest these new crops. Also, new disease were introduced that killed million of Native Americans.
The southern economy and way of life would be destroyed without slave labor.
The great depression happened
