How did patterns of human migration change during the nineteenth century?

What will be an ideal response?


A. Changing patterns of human migration
1. massive migration helped to reshape the world's labor force
a. the number of people grew, overspilling from some areas, while
cheap, long-range communications redistributed some of them
2. Russian and Chinese migration into Siberia and Manchuria
a. China still the world's most prolific source of long-range colonists
3. growth of steamship trade
a. facilitated coolie migration
b. helped populate underexploited frontiers in the Southern
Hemisphere and the North American West
c. provide labor for North American industrialization
4. Europe main source of free migrants
a. destinations were "New Europes," or areas with climates and
environments similar to those the migrants left behind
b. Transatlantic routes were the most popular and carried the most
traffic
5. transatlantic migrants headed for the United States
a. from 1890 to 1920, migration brought a net gain of 18.2 million
people to the United States—more than in the entire previous history
of the country
6. Canada and the South American countries of the River Plate region,
especially Argentina, also made huge gains

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