1. Chapter 3: Key Issue 4
Why Do People Migrate Within a Country?
1. What is the most famous example of large-scale interregional migration in the U.S.?
2. What is the “population center”?
3. What was the first “intervening obstacle” which hindered American settlement of the interior of the
continent?
4. What developments in transportation eventually encouraged settlement to the Mississippi?
5. Why was settlement of the Great Plains slow to come, with settlers passing it by for California and the
West Coast?
6. How did the railroads encourage settlement of the American interior?
9. Use the chart on p. 104 to
calculate the net growth (or
7. For what two reasons have people been migrating to the South in recent years? of US regions, and place
loss)
the appropriate number in
each box on the map.
8. How is the migration pattern for African-Americans different than that of whites?
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2. 10. Make appropriate notes in the table below on five specific examples/case studies of interregional migration.
Country/Region Where? Why? How?
Russia
Brazil
Indonesia
3. Europe
India
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Chapter 3 Key Issue 4
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Issue 4
Please read the section “Migration Within One Region” and then define/describe each of the following terms
and summarize important facts about its occurrence in the U.S.
Urbanization Suburbanization Counterurbanization