The main impact on the Americas from the Colombian Exchange was how many Indigenous people were killed. The exchange transferred European diseases, such as syphilis, smallpox, mumps, chicken pox, and the flu, to the Americas (which native people had not experienced). Many died as a result of a lack resistance or cures to these new diseases.
Yes. The Founding Fathers were very influenced by the Enlightenment movement, especially by the philosopher John Locke. ... Because of that, the Founding Fathers justified the rebellion against the British.
Two years later, as a Georgia delegate to the U.S. Constitutional Convention in the summer of 1787, Baldwin cast the crucial vote that saved the convention — and our nation — when both were in danger of dissolving.
