Long Distance Migrations 1700-1900 2011

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    African Diaspora/ Middle passage

    Transfer of Afircans as slaves to the Americas because they needed cheap workers for all the sugar, cotton, and tabocco plantations
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    Migration of Europeans to Africa

    bc of colonization
    ex. British South Africa and French Algeria
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    Migration of People to US

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    Australian Penal Colony

    British sent captives to Australia and New Zealand
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    Increased transfer of indentured servents

    more from Asia than from Africa to America
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    Slave Trade Abolished

    due to economic, political, and religious changes because of the Enlightenment, the age of revolutio, Christian revivalism and Industrial Revoution and economic= costed more money than it was worth
    ; by John Wesley and William Wilberforce
    caused millions of displaced Afircans that creatd a new, vibrant culture and society
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    Irish Potato Famine

    Caused massive amounts of emmigration overseas
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    Chinese Exculsion Act

    US law restricting immagration in US
    blamed Chinese workers for low pay and economic ills
    ironic because China did the same thing to Western influeces prior

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