What are some examples of movement and migration?

Answer 1

Humankind is a history of peoples migrating or another term "moving" to one new area from another one. Two of the most interesting examples of migration are thousands of years apart.

Religious historians may cite the mass movement or migration of the people of Judea migrating from the rule of the Egyptian Pharaoh to a new land on the eastern side of the Mediterranean Sea. Exact numbers and dates are difficult to specify in that it occurred several thousand years ago. It is based on oral traditions and placed in the Hebrew writings now found in the Bible used by most Jewish people.

Another significant migration began from the eastern half of the United States beginning, for the most part in the first half of the 19th century. The expansion of the original 13 British colonies from basically the East Atlantic coast to the Pacific Ocean took many years and was accomplished with good documentation. It eventually made the United States one of the largest nations in the New World.

It also was a complex migration that took place within many historical events such as:

A. Land "deals" with France and Mexico made part of the expansion westward legitimate in terms of the parties being in agreement;

B. Part of the expansion was due to the Mexican War of 1846. This can in some circles be described as the result of the "last man standing":

1. Spanish conquistadors claimed much of the Southwest and California for the Spanish Crown, ignoring or driving away Native Americans;

2. Upon the independence of Mexico from Spain, these lands became part of Mexico;

3. American & Mexican authorities engaged in the Mexican War of 1846, and as a result, the USA took over these Southwest lands; and

4. Native Americans were pushed aside, killed or sent to reservations, leaving Americans with the vast expanse of land including California.

C. The vast territory of the current US State of Alaska was bought from Russia in 1867;

D. The completion of the transcontinental railway, connected the East coast of America to the west coast. This helped transport Americans migrating to the western areas of the United States;

E. In the middle of all this activity, the US Civil War was fought; and

F. By the end of the 19th century, the migration of eastern based Americans, to the west coast and other western lands west of the Mississippi, was in place for additional population growth.