Unit 6.6

What was the main reason for migration through labor systems during 1750-1900?

• C) Pursuing better economic opportunities

• D) Exploring new territories

• B) Escaping religious persecution

• A) Seeking political asylum

What was the primary motivation for Irish migration during the Great Potato Famine?

• A) Political reasons

• B) Seeking adventure

• C) Escaping religious discrimination

• D) Avoiding starvation

Which labor system involved signing agreements to work for a number of years in exchange for passage to a new land?

• D) Slavery

• A) Contract labor

• B) Penal colony

• C) Indentured servitude

What is a diaspora?

• A) A type of labor system

• C) A scattered population with origins in a different geographic location

• D) A type of settler colony

• B) A form of coerced labor

Which group of people migrated to settler colonies primarily to extend industrialization and western technology?

• D) Japanese settlers

• C) British engineers

• B) Indian indentured servants

• A) Chinese laborers