1. Why do people Migrate within a country?
Chapter 3 Key Issue #4

2. Between regions within a Country - US
Movement is most often from less land to more land
Movement West
Colonial settlement
Almost all population was on East Coast
Because of shipping needs & Appalachian Mtns. (intervening obstacle)
Interior Settlement
Canals allowed people to move farther west (Midwest)
Ex. Great Lakes
More cheaper prices = major pull factor
Migration to California
Gold Rush (started in late 1840’s)
Migrants bypassed Great Plains (why?)
Ag Improvements: 1. barbed wire (no need for wood) 2. steel plow (dry hard ground) 3. windmill drilling tech (improved water)
Railroad: better transportation for people & GOODS & sold large chunks of land

3. Between regions within a Country - US
Movement West
Settling the Great Plains
Very difficult because of dry, wide-open climate
Improvements to agriculture helped
Railroad development
Movement west slowed
Balanced by major European Immigration
Depression
Recent trend to Southwest
Climate & econ opportunity
Interregional migration has slowed
Net-migration near zero
Ag Improvements: 1. barbed wire (no need for wood) 2. steel plow (dry hard ground) 3. windmill drilling tech (improved water)
Railroad: better transportation for people & GOODS & sold large chunks of land

4. Migration within 1 region (intraregional)
Rural to Urban
Influenced by Industrial Revolution (1800’s)
LDC’s starting to urbanize
Especially in Asia
Urban to Suburban
Not related to employment but culture
Pull-factors: better schools, homogeneous, private space, etc.
Urban sprawl
Urban to Rural
Counterurbanization – late 20th Century
Strong economic time
Lifestyle choice
Modern communication in MDC’s makes this possible
1800 – 5% of Am. Lived in cities, today 75% of people in MDC’s live in cities