Interregional Migration and Westward Expansion

Today in class we talked more about migration and a little about Westward Expansion. Instead of just taking notes in our notebooks we used a packet of the textbook that the powerpoint is on. The packet was the same exact thing as our notes from yesterday, it just went deeper into each topic because obviously when you take notes you can't write paragraphs. The topics we read are what migration is, different types of migration, Ravenstein's Law, and the three main eras of migration in the U.S. Mobility is the most generalized term that refers to all types of movements, which is what migration is, people and animals moving from one region to another permanently. When people go short distances repeatedly that is called circulation. For example, college students going to school and then coming back for the holidays and summer. Although there is more than one type of migration, we only went over interregional migration. Interregional migration is when people migrate to better themselves or their families with economic opportunities and available land. An example of interregional is Westward Expansion. The Westward Expansion is the time period where Europeans discovered the west part of America and began to make a bunch of settlements. They migrated from the east to the west of America.