emigration

(noun)

The act of emigrating; movement of a person or persons out of a country or national region, for the purpose of permanent relocation of residence.

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Examples of emigration in the following topics:

  • The Mormon Exodus

    • Along their way, some were assigned to establish settlements and to plant and harvest crops for later emigrants.
    • During the winter of 1846–47, the emigrants wintered in Iowa, other nearby states, and the unorganized territory that later became Nebraska, with the largest group residing in Winter Quarters, Nebraska.
    • During the first few years, the emigrants were mostly former occupants of Nauvoo who were following Young to Utah.
    • Later, the emigrants increasingly comprised converts from the British Isles and Europe.
    • Among the emigrants were the Mormon handcart pioneers of 1856–1860.

  • Irish Immigration

    • Many emigrated to America in order to escape poverty and death.
    • By 1840, emigration had become a massive, relentless, and efficiently managed national enterprise.
    • Including those who moved to Britain, between 9 and 10 million Irish people emigrated after 1700.
    • By 1855, almost 2 million Irish had emigrated.

  • Mining on the Comstock Lode

    • Gold was discovered in this region—the Gold Canyon—in the spring of 1850 by a company of Mormon emigrants who were part of the Mormon Battalion.
    • Other emigrants followed, camped on the canyon and went to work at mining.

  • Abolitionists and the American Ideal

    • Some endorsed colonization in Africa, while others advocated emigration.
    • Colonization ignored the fact that many freed slaves, having lived in America for several generations, considered it their home, and preferred full rights in the United States over emigration.
    • In 1821, the ACS established the colony of Liberia in Africa and assisted the emigration of thousands of former African-American slaves and free blacks (with legislated limits) from the United States.

  • Crisis in Berlin

    • Between 1945 and 1950, over 15 million people emigrated from Soviet-occupied Eastern European countries to the West.
    • During the early months of 1961, the Soviet government actively sought a means of halting the emigration of its population to the West.

  • The Transcontinental Railroads

    • It took one week to travel from Omaha to San Francisco via emigrant sleeping car at a fare of about $65 for an adult.
    • Many Army veterans and Irish emigrants were the main workers on the Union Pacific, while most of the engineers were ex-Army men who had learned their trade keeping the trains running during the American Civil War.

  • Slavery and Liberty

    • The ACS was made up mostly of Quakers and slaveholders, who disagreed on the issue of slavery but found common ground in support of "repatriation. " Most black Americans did not want to emigrate, however, and preferred full rights in the United States.
    • In 1821 the ACS established the colony of Liberia, and assisted thousands of former African-American slaves and free blacks to emigrate there from the United States.

  • Economic Hardship and Labor Upheaval During the Transition to Peace

    • By 1919, an estimated 500,000 southern African-Americans emigrated to the industrial cities of the North and Midwest in the first wave of the so-called Great Migration, which continued until 1940.

  • Gabriel's Rebellion

    • The French and Haitian Revolutions had encouraged the emigration of many slave-owning whites and free people of color to the American South.

  • Settling the Southern Colonies

    • The first permanent English settlement was established in 1653 when emigrants from the Virginia Colony, New England, and Bermuda settled on the shores of Albemarle Sound in the northeastern corner of present-day North Carolina.