1. Turn in your maps in tray on my desk
-Physical Map, then Political Map, then directions
-DID YOU WRITE YOUR NAME ON THE MAPS?
Pick up the Note-taking Guide
-We will be talking about movement and migration today

2. Theme: Migration and Movement
U.S./Canada
Theme: Migration and Movement

3. Early Settlers When: 20-15,000 years ago
Where: Early man migrated across the Bering Strait (Beringia)
Impact: Settlement
Of 40 – 100 million
People in North and
Central America

4. Native Peoples 5

5. “Old World” to “New World”
When: 1492 to the 1800’s Where: Old World to New World

6. The Columbian Exchange
Voyages launched large-scale contact between Europe and Americas.
Interaction with Native Americans led to sweeping cultural changes.
Contact between the two groups led to the widespread exchange of plants, animals, and disease—the Columbian Exchange.
Plants, animals developed in very different ways in hemispheres
Europeans—no potatoes, corn, sweet potatoes, turkeys
People in Americas—no coffee, oranges, rice, wheat, sheep, cattle
The Exchange of Goods
Arrival of Europeans in Americas changed all this
Previously unknown foods taken back to Europe
Familiar foods brought to Americas by colonists
Sharing Discoveries
The introduction of beasts of burden to the Americas was a significant development from the Columbian Exchange. The introduction of the horse provided people in the Americas with a new source of labor and transportation.

8. “Old World” Diseases Smallpox Measles Diphteria Chicken Pox
Bubonic Plague
Influenza
Cholera
Malaria
Small pox-trunk of victim
*Infecting many Native Americans
Bubonic Plague Victim

9. Impact of Columbian Exchange
On the “New World” (Americas)
On the “Old World” (Europe and Africa)
More food added to their diet
Corn/potatoes easier to grow than wheat
More food meant more people – population explosion
Eventually pushed many Europeans
Devastated the Native population
Changed the Ecosystem- (weeds, bugs, rats and animals)
Changed the culture of some of the tribes-use of the horse
Exploitation of native people and eventually slavery

12. Emigrate means to leave one's
country to live in another.
Immigrate is to come into another country to live permanently.
Migrate is to move, like birds in the winter.
The choice between emigrate, immigrate, and migrate depends
on point of view.

13. Migration is the movement of people from one place to another
Migration can occur as result of push and pull factors

14. Why do people move from place to place?
Push factors are factors that force a person to move.
They can include famine, war, disease, lack of jobs, over population and drought

15. Pull factors are factors that encourage a person to come to a new place.
They can include freedom, family, technology, better jobs, more land better education.

16. Where Have Immigrants to America come from
Where Have Immigrants to America come from? How has that changed over time?

18. Movement Across the Continent
SETTLING THE FRONTIER
1803 Louisiana Purchase
Impact: Doubled the
Size of the U.S. And led to
The Westward Movement
Gov’t also contracted building of roads and canals to promote business

19. Transcontinental RR Completed in 1869 Replaced Pony
Express and Covered
Wagons
Unified East and
West

20. Rural to Urban Society Colonial times-Farmers and Artisans
Early industrialization (Small mills, interchangable parts)
: 14 million Immigrants from Western and Eastern Europe came to America
Impact: Growth of cities (New York, Boston, Chicago)
Cheap labor led to Growth of Industrialization
U.S. changing from Rural/Agrarian to Urban/Industrial Economy by

21. Rural to Urban to Suburban
By end of WW2-U.S. was major world power, economy boomed
Growth of Suburbs – communities grew outside of urban areas; Love of the Automobile

22. Building of Highway Systems
Early 1920’s – Paved roads and small highways
1956-Eisenhower signed a federal law to build a series of highway across the country
Infrastructure continues
with use of airlines
*How will technology
Change the way
Americans “move”?