Columbus Day and the Columbian Exchange

Published: Oct. 13, 2013, 7:24 a.m.

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Columbus Day is a US federal holiday that is celebrated on the second Monday of October.\\xa0

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Columbus Day remembers Christopher Columbus\' arrival to the Americas on October 12, 1492.

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The Columbian Exchange was a widespread exchange of crops and animals between the people of the Old World and the New World.

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