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6.6 Causes of Migration in an Interconnected World

  • Migration through labor systems

  • Factories wanted raw materials

  • Labor through cash crops grew

  • Since slavery was being abolished, workers had to hire people who would do the labor but not be considered slaves

  • Indentured servitude was a agreement that they could work for a number of years to pay for their passage to new land

  • Many indentured servants worked in their home and sent money to their families

  • Chinese and Indian workers agreed to work for very low wages

  • The Penal Colony was where they sent convicts to do hard labor

  • Building railroads, kept government records

  • When they were finished they were returned to their home country

  • Migration with the face of challenges: some people moved because their home situation was horrible so they migrated to other places

  • They formed a diaspora- a scattered population that is different then the homeland of the people who formed it

  • Indians migrated due to mass poverty in India

  • They became indentured servitude

  • The chinese also accepted indentured servitude

  • They helped complete the transcontinental railroad

  • The Irish migrated because of political reasons.

  • They were being religiously persecuted

  • They went to the US

  • They worked in factories

  • Settler colony is a colony that is established for people to live there

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6.6 Causes of Migration in an Interconnected World

  • Migration through labor systems

  • Factories wanted raw materials

  • Labor through cash crops grew

  • Since slavery was being abolished, workers had to hire people who would do the labor but not be considered slaves

  • Indentured servitude was a agreement that they could work for a number of years to pay for their passage to new land

  • Many indentured servants worked in their home and sent money to their families

  • Chinese and Indian workers agreed to work for very low wages

  • The Penal Colony was where they sent convicts to do hard labor

  • Building railroads, kept government records

  • When they were finished they were returned to their home country

  • Migration with the face of challenges: some people moved because their home situation was horrible so they migrated to other places

  • They formed a diaspora- a scattered population that is different then the homeland of the people who formed it

  • Indians migrated due to mass poverty in India

  • They became indentured servitude

  • The chinese also accepted indentured servitude

  • They helped complete the transcontinental railroad

  • The Irish migrated because of political reasons.

  • They were being religiously persecuted

  • They went to the US

  • They worked in factories

  • Settler colony is a colony that is established for people to live there