SS Unit 3 Review (Movement)

What is human/environment interaction?

• The geographic theme that describes how and why people and goods move.

• Ways in which people use, adapt, or modify the earth.

• Things that push people out of a place (make them move away).

• Things that pull people to a new area (make them move in).

What is movement?

• The geographic theme that explains how and why people, goods, and ideas move.

• The ways in which people use, adapt, or modify the earth.

• Things that tend to push people out of a place (make them move away)

• Things that tend to pull people to an area (make them move in).

True or false: Migration refers to the movement of people to a new place.

• true

• false

Things that tend to push people out of a place (make them move away) are called....

• Push Factors

• Pull Factors

Things that tend to pull people to a new area (make them move IN) are called...

• Push factors

• Pull factors

The Underground Railroad was a historic migration movement in the United States. What push factor caused movement from the south to the north?

• The weather in the south was too cold, they wanted to move to the warmer weather in the north.

• There was a volcanic eruption in the south that caused people to run north to safety.

• Slavery was legal in the south, but against the law in the north. Slaves wanted to move north to find freedom.

• People were searching for gold in the north.

Another historic migration in United States history was known as Westward Movement. Which was NOT a pull factor caused people to move west?

• Gold had been discovered in the west.

• The west had a lot of space and open land so that settlers could build homes and cities.

• The west had a lot of land that was good for farming.

• The west had warm weather all year.

Immigration is:

• When people move from city to city.

• When people move from country to country.

• When people move from state to state.

• When people search for gold.

Which of the following are pull factors that cause people to choose to immigrate TO the U.S.A. (Check ALL that apply).

• Job opportunities.

• Freedoms, such as religion and speech.

• Adventure, to see new places.

• To work as slaves on a southern plantation.

Which of the following describe movement events that developed the United States? (Check ALL that apply)

• People immigrated TO the United States searching for jobs, opportunity, and freedom.

• Many people immigrated FROM Europe which causes the Northeast to become crowded.

• People began to MIGRATE WEST in the United States searching for space, opportunity, adventure, and jobs.

• Slaves escaped slavery in the SOUTH through the Underground Railroad and moved North to find FREEDOM.