GEOG 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Family Reunification, Common Descent, Frontier
6 May 2018
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GEOG 1000 - Lecture 05 September 25, 2017
Making Settler Nations: Canada & USA
NFL Protests
March of Reconciliation in Vancouver - over 10,000 attendees
Settlement was influenced by climate and precipitation
Explaining Migration
Push Factors for Migration
● Poverty, seeking better opportunity, Deprivation
● Persecution, Conflict (Myanmar)
Pull Factors for Migration
● Economic opportunity
● Social contacts
State Policies and Regulations
Technological influence - technology determines how people migrate (trains)
States
A sovereign power that has control over a population in a territory, and the boundaries of
that territory are acknowledged by other states. Canada is a state.
Indigenous Migration
● Crossed the Bering Strait
● This land was peopled before the Europeans arrived, Europeans relied on the
Indigenous peoples to survive
Settler Societies
● British colonies that intended to be replicas of Britain, occupied territories of
indigenous peoples, migration is part of national identity, settlers became citizens
● Never homogeneous, first came Irish, slaves came as well, were always indigenous
peoples there first
● US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand
● Replicate british society
● Seizure of indigenous land
● Part of national identity (Statue of Liberty)
● 1850 Settlers predominantly british, settled to just west of the Mississippi River,
indigenous were forced further west, people in the original (east) colonies did move
west.
● Settling of the west begins from 1850 to 1920. More people came than had ever
come previously in 1910. People and peasant farmers were being pushed west.
People also left the east due to prosecution. Technology allowed to move people
much quicker and more efficiently. Plenty of land. Also state policies (homesteading)
took place in continental us (west of mississippi river).
Exploitation Colonialism
● Not intended to be settled, only to have resources stripped
Document Summary
March of reconciliation in vancouver - over 10,000 attendees. Technological influence - technology determines how people migrate (trains) A sovereign power that has control over a population in a territory, and the boundaries of that territory are acknowledged by other states. This land was peopled before the europeans arrived, europeans relied on the. British colonies that intended to be replicas of britain, occupied territories of indigenous peoples, migration is part of national identity, settlers became citizens. Never homogeneous, first came irish, slaves came as well, were always indigenous peoples there first. Part of national identity (statue of liberty) 1850 settlers predominantly british, settled to just west of the mississippi river, indigenous were forced further west, people in the original (east) colonies did move west. Settling of the west begins from 1850 to 1920. More people came than had ever come previously in 1910. People and peasant farmers were being pushed west. People also left the east due to prosecution.
