Reasons for Migration
People move to find better job opportunities.
What is economic opportunity?
A reason that forces people to leave their home country.
What is a push factor?
The Great Migration happened in this country.
What is the United States?
Diseases can spread faster when people do this.
What is migrate or travel?
The Silk Road connected Asia to this continent.
What is Europe?
People leave their country because of war or conflict.
What is political migration?
A reason that attracts people to a new place.
What is a pull factor?
This group of people moved during the Great Migration.
Who were African Americans?
Trade routes sometimes helped spread this deadly disease in history.
What is the Black Death?
A valuable product traded on the Silk Road.
What is silk? (or spices)
Moving to escape natural disasters like floods or drought.
What is environmental migration?
High unemployment is an example of this type of factor.
What is a push factor?
They moved from the rural South to these types of areas.
What are northern cities / urban areas?
Migration can increase the population in cities, leading to this health issue.
What is overcrowding?
Trade routes helped spread not just goods but also this.
What are ideas and culture?
Moving for education or better schools.
What is educational opportunity?
Better healthcare and safety are examples of this type of factor.
What is a pull factor?
One reason for the Great Migration.
What were job opportunities in factories?
One way governments control disease during migration.
What is quarantine?
The Silk Road connected China to this major region in Africa.
What is North Africa?
Migration that happens because of religious persecution.
What is religious migration?
Name one push and one pull factor.
Example :
War (push) and jobs (pull)
The Great Migration changed population and culture in cities like this one.
What is Chicago? (or New York, Detroit)
True or False: Migration only spreads disease and never helps societies.
What is False?
Trade and migration both help societies grow in this way.
What is economically and culturally?