How do I move all my 25,000 Lightroom 5 images from an external HD to an internal (ssd) drive on a mac?

I have all my Lightroom (LR) image folders on an external hard drive which is getting full and was always too slow in use.
I want to keep my existing LR catalogue but move ALL the images, previews etc onto my laptop with nice fast ssd.
How??
Any suggestions?
This should be really basic information but I've trawled through pages and pages of comments, tutorials, videos, books but damned if I can see a clear relevant explanation, anywhere!
I have copied the the whole folder containing everything to my laptop drive.
But when I open LR I get no option to locate images, folder etc.
When I open the new folder on my laptop drive I can see all the contents but .lrcat items are not selectable.
What am I doing wrong?

Brilliant ssprengel!!
Sorry for slow reply -hectic.
Your suggestion: Double-click the catalogname.lrcat file to open it in LR.
Perfect, this was THE vital piece of information that I needed!
I couldn’t find this anywhere -or at least failed to see it if I did…
Could authors please, please include this absolutely vital information in their LR guides.
I now have my complete image library working on my laptop -bliss.
It IS faster.
How much I don’t know yet until I get stuck into my next editing task...
Many thanks

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