AP World History: Modern › Migration, Settlement, and Demography 1750 to 1900
Which of the following correctly outlines historical large-scale global migration patterns during the late 18th through early 20th centuries?
Migration of Europeans to the Western Hemisphere and Oceania.
Migration of Chinese to Europe
Migration of Japanese to Southeast Asia
Migration of Indians to Persia and the Middle East
Migration of Native Americans to Europe
During the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries, tens of millions of Europeans migrated from Europe to colonies (and later countries) such as the United States, Brazil, Canada, Australia, and Argentina. The peak of this migration occurred during the mid 19th to early 20th centuries.
Why did Liberia remain independent from European control after the Scramble for Africa?
American protection
British protection
Lack of natural resources
Relatively uninhabited
Liberia was founded in the early 1800's by freed slaves from the United States. They were part of the Back To Africa Movement of freed slaves. Therefore the U.S. felt the need to issue a hands-off warning to the European powers during the Scramble for Africa.
Thomas Malthus was a prominent academic in the late 1700's and early 1800's. What was his field of study?
Population Theory
Economic Theory
Modern Technology
None of these answers is accurate.
Malthus was an ardent student of population trends. He published many studies on how populations affected the economics of a given area or nation. He also looked at the trends of the populations of the world as a whole.
Given Ireland's current population of 4.6 million people, was the population of Ireland higher, lower, or roughly the same before the Great Irish Famine?
Higher
Lower
The same
Impossible to determine
The population of Ireland before the Great Famine was just over 8 million people. The famine hit so hard that between the millions who starved and the millions who fled to the United States, England, Australia, and New Zealand by the time the famine ended the population of Ireland had fallen to 4 million.
What problem did population theorists of the Industrial Revolution think the world's rising population would cause?
Famine
Over-urbanization
A reoccurrence of widespread bubonic plague
The emergence of new diseases
Malthus believed the world's population was growing far too fast for the farms and agricultural markets to keep up. He feared that the world would be plunged into a massive famine due to the lack of ability to feed the ever-rising population. While his fears were never completely realized as a worldwide famine on the scale he imagined never happened, there have been many large-scale famines that greatly diminished the populations of many nations.