The British Migration 1700's - Jasper Nguyen by

Historical Context

jaspernguyen472 — 2025-08-14 00:27:50 UTC

In the 1700’s travel was very difficult there were few roads and little amounts of public transport, this meant many that worked were still around their birthplace and lived around that area, they couldn’t afford to move somewhere else. During that era, religion was very important and had major influence in the rural areas, it provided the structure and stability of the area and was largely used to bring people together. They divided themselves into districts called parishes, at the centre of each district was a church, the church was used for weddings, baptism, and funerals. In the rural areas, the place was very poor sanitated which led to a decline in health, medicine was very limited due to it being exclusive as well as medical knowledge, diseases that are easily treated today were considered deadly back then, food was very limited as well as people either had to grow their food or catch them and a shortage of crops could have major effect on individuals. Education was very hard to achieve back then as sending children to public or private schools costed a lot of money which many people were not on that social level.

Push

jaspernguyen472 — 2025-08-14 00:32:17 UTC

Farmers were forced to move out of their area due to the privatization and then they had to find other jobs

Sometimes even people who were stable had to be forced out

Over-population was a problem as many of the population resided in England and in Europe in general.

Poverty was a problem as many people couldn’t afford to find job and to supply themselves with shelter and food.

The hierarchy of civilians determined a person and could ultimately be judged poorly.

Pull

jaspernguyen472 — 2025-08-14 00:33:05 UTC

The peaceful environment caused lots of people to migrate for a more peaceful time.

Whilst many people did get kicked out of their farmer jobs and they had problems, there was still employment opportunities

Many land was opened up in England, leading to development of homes and even agriculture being improved.

5 Key Events During British Migration

jaspernguyen472 — 2025-08-14 00:59:48 UTC

1. The arrival of the first fleet was in 1788 happened during the era of migration, it also marked the beginning of the British colonizing Australia and having convicts and free settlers establish their territory.

2. Way after the First Fleet came the gold rush which was around 1855 and it introduced many people to migrate to Australia to mine gold and earn riches, mainly British and other parts of the world travelled to Australia and massively increased their population and shaped how the economic and social landscape is.

3. The industrial revolution was slowly rising, roughly around the 1840’s which had made significant internal immigration in Britain, people moved from rural areas to urban centres to work at newly made factories for jobs, with rise of new inventions caused people to mass migration and to increase economic opportunities.

4. A few years after, around 1845-1849 there was a famine in Ireland that led to mass starvation and disease causing many Irish people to locate and migrate to Britain and even migrate to Australia, seeking refuge and help.

In the late 1700’s to mid-1800’s over 200,000 free settlers and immigrants chose to migrate to Australia, seeking new opportunities and a better life, they all mostly worked agriculture or servants.

Key Challenges

jaspernguyen472 — 2025-08-17 09:51:25 UTC

1. The time to get to Australia from Britain was a longer time than America or anywhere else, it took approximately 2 months or more to travel to Australia whereas America was somewhere between 22 days.

2. Australia offered to people in Britain that they would pay for their tickets to come to the country, due to the challenge of many people in Britain being unemployed and broken, many did travel to Australia.

3. Due to the amount of people that travelled to Australia the children and adult death rate on the boat was huge, they were baked in heat or went through cold storms and because of how lengthy the journey was and how dangerous the sea was, it made it exhausting for many individuals and had a huge death toll when travelling that much of a distance.

Effect on Britain

jaspernguyen472 — 2025-08-17 11:35:37 UTC

Britain has been changed their way of how economics work and the social and cultural impacts on the country, Immigration in hand is one the reasons for the effect on Britain, they have been shown to have participated towards the labour market and have economic growth but at the cost of some people believing that they have put a strain on public services. Whilst the economy has multiple effects, social and cultural impacts have been shown to have greatly improved, with an increase in ethnic diversity, altering social structures and making people feel more comfortable with a sense of belonging.

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