•Pilgrims migrate to the New World in search of religious freedom…•Interaction with Native Americans…

•Atlantic slave trade becomes the largest forced migration in history•Over 9 million people taken out of Africa•Moved because of economic well-being of Europeans/Americans

•Christopher Columbus, on of the most controversial people in history, discovers the new world and meets the native population in the Bahamas•Opens up world to the Americas and their abundant natural resources, but wipes out the native population in the process•From his journal: “They willingly traded everything they owned... . They were well-built, with good bodies and handsome features.... They do not bear arms, and do not know them, for I showed them a sword, they took it by the edge and cut themselves out of ignorance. They have no iron. Their spears are made of cane... . They would make fine servants.... With fifty men we could subjugate them all and make them do whatever we want.

•Native American interaction with colonists/Americans•Pushed off their land and forced to give up everything they had •Suffered disease, abuse and mistreatment for European economic well-being•Forced relocation to approved areas in mid-west

•Irish emigration in 1849—over 1 million people come to U.S. due to famine•Economic well-being•Hated as a group, just above slaves•Lived through poverty and subhuman living conditions•Once other minority groups came to America, they became equals

•Global connections dominate the world we live in and thus the way we live•Look at your clothes, school supplies, things at home•WHY DO PEOPLE MOVE TODAY?

Human Migration and Interaction Today

•Of the near 7 billion people on Earth, 215 million of them are migrants•Poverty, war, disease, politics, religion…

•The GWP (gross world product) in 2012 was $71.83 trillion•The United States imported $228.0 billion worth of goods, while exporting $189.2 billion worth of goods•Of 196* counties in the world, the United States traded with 173 of them

•Global connections, in the past and now, changed what people did, what they thought and how they lived for better or for worse…