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Dust Bowl Migration
1930s: Migration of people from the Plains states to California due to severe dust storms and economic hardship.
Bantu Migration
Approximately 1000 BC - 1000 AD: Expansion of the Bantu-speaking people from their homeland in what is now southeastern Nigeria and the Cameroons into most of sub-Saharan Africa.
Volga German Migration
1760s - 19th century: Ethnic Germans migrating to and from the Volga River region in Russia.
The Great Atlantic Migration
19th - early 20th century: The movement of Europeans to the United States.
The Exodus
Traditionally dated to the 13th century BC: The mass departure of the Israelites from slavery in Egypt, as narrated in the Hebrew Bible.
The Transatlantic Slave Trade
16th - 19th century: Forced transportation of enslaved Africans to the Americas.
The Highland Clearances
18th - 19th century: Mass displacement of the inhabitants of the Scottish Highlands due to changes in agricultural practices and the enclosure movement.
Trail of Tears
1830s: Forced relocation of several Native American tribes from their ancestral lands in the Southeastern United States to designated Indian Territory, west of the Mississippi River.
Great Migration
1916 - 1970: Movement of 6 million African Americans from the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West.
Mariel Boatlift
1980: A mass emigration of Cubans to the United States when Cuba's government allowed citizens to leave the country via the Port of Mariel.
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