Transatlantic Migration Patterns

What were the causes of the first movements of large groups of people across the Atlantic Ocean?

• Escaping religious and political persecution

• Imperialistic competition

• Forced migration of convicts and enslaved laborers

• All of the above

What factors explain the timing and direction of the new movement of people from Afro-Eurasia to the Americas?

• Imperial competition in Europe

• Encounters with indigenous people

• European Reformation

• All of the above

What drove the early waves of voluntary migration to the New World in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries?

• Religious conflict in Europe

• Escape from poverty

• Enslaved populations

• None of the above

What was the main reason for the forced migration of enslaved Africans?

• Farming sugar cane

• Religious persecution

• Escape from poverty

• None of the above

What led to the increase in voluntary migration from Europe and Asia in the mid-1800s?

• Abolition of the slave trade

• Staple crop and industrial activities

• Search for laborers

• All of the above