Key Issue 4- Why Do People Migrate Within a Country?
Two main types of internal migration, which are:
-Interregional migration- is movement from one region of a country to another
-between rural and urban areas
-Intraregional migration- is movement within one region
-from older cities to suburbs
I. Migration Between Regions of a Country
A. United States
vocabulary- (population center is the average location of everyone in the country, the “center of population gravity”)
Few colonist left the coast around 1790 because:
-they depended on on shipping links with Europe to receive products and to export raw materials
-intervening obstacle, the Appalachian mountains which blocked western development
-hostile indians
Change in center of population was encouraged by:
-opportunity to obtain a large amount of land at a low price
-transportation improvements
Settlement of the Great Plains:
-advances in agricultural technology in the late 19th century enabled people to cultivate the Great plains
-expansions of railroads
The south grew because:
-new jobs were created each year in the south at about 5%
-more temperate climate
