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Effects of Migration

Driving Question: How did migration impact both sending and receiving societies in this time period?

The long nineteenth century saw a massive wave of migration across the world, in part due to growing empires. Industrial cities grew rapidly, leading to a decline in many rural areas and straining city resources. Immigrants took new jobs, spread new ideas, sought political as well as social reforms, and diversified cultures.

Learning Objectives:

  1. Explain how and why new patterns of migration affected society from 1750 to 1900.
  2. Use close reading skills to consider the effect of human migratory patterns during this period.

Vocab Terms:

  • abolition
  • colonization
  • decolonization
  • migration
  • realignment
STEP 2

Migration and Empire

You will examine the push and pull factors that affected migration around the world at the end of the nineteenth century as well as the early twentieth century.

STEP 3

Source Collection: Migration

STEP 4

Closer: Effects of Migration