Migrations

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Migrations

• Unit 5 1750-1914

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Demography 1750-1914 Global
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Push factors

• Religious persecution ( Jewish Pogroms)
• Lack of employment
• Famine ( Irish potato famine)
• Population pressures
• Faster cheaper transportation

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Pull factors

• Farm land ( gov. Encouraged immigration with
  generous land policies)
• Economic opportunities ( gold rushes in
  Australia, Alaska, Northwest)
• Political religious freedom
• Indentured Servant a temporary slave

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Asian labor migration after 1750
Japan Over 500,000 to the Americas and Pacific
China Over 8 million emigrated to Southeast Asia
(Thailand-1.5 million Indonesia-2.8 million)
and the Americas
India Over 1 million emigrated as indentured
servants to South Africa Caribbean
U.S. limits immigration with Chinese Exclusion
Act Gentlemen's act
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African Slave Trade after 1750

• Nearly two million Africans were shipped to the
  Americas between 1750 1870

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European Migration from 1750

• 40 million Europeans emigrated to the two
  Americas, Australia, Asiatic Australia, South
  Africa, and other areas