Migration: Crash Course European History #29

Between 1840 and 1914, an estimated 40 million people left Europe. This is one of the most significant migrations in human history. So, who was leaving Europe? And why?

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[LuinTathren]

My mom entered the room just as you said "... the streets are paved with..." And my mom yelled "Gold!" at the same time I yelled out "CHEESE!" She said, "No, it's gold." I rewound the video and proved to her that I am not the only person who placed high value on the Don Bluth classic animated film An American Tail. Thank you, John, for vindication my sentimentality.

[maulenakhmetov]

This is the best episode in European history CC. No great persons, kings, inventors, explorers - just people. And it almost brought me to tears

[weldin]

Yes, John. I too remember that there are no cats in America, and the streets are paved with cheese.

[bobganskow]

"How history looks, depends upon where you are sitting."

[mikaelsanchez]

"God save me from all that is Swedish"

Denmark liked this video

[jonathanlilja]

(Somewhat) Interesting fact:
Many historians argue that the great migration from Sweden was an important factor in "restarting" the Swedish economy. Setting us on the route to becoming one of the most prosperous countries in the world during the 1900s.

Well that and selling steel during two world wars without being bombed.

[chillsahoy]

"They have nobody to blame for their poverty but themselves" Ah, you live long enough, you see the same things happen again. Blaming the poor for their own poverty, the cycle never ends.

[PatrickAllenNL]

If history tells me anthing it is that being jewish is hard and not very popular

[OrbitalAstronaut]

Best time of the week is a new episode of crash course.

[ramon-theyseemerollintheyh]

i want a crash course south american history series plz! <3

[franug]

Great video, I just wish you had at least mentioned how profoundly this mass migration changed South America! The thousands and even millions of non-Spaniard Europeans that came here in the 19th and early 20th century had a great effect in our societies: Argentina and Uruguay wouldn't be as they are without the massive Italian migration they had; same with Croats and Germans in Chile, etc. I'm sad that even in this channel, we see that Americans ignore their neighbours to the south 😖
PD: I'm Chilean of Italian descent from two sets of great-grandparents!

[kelligillum]

Ok so we know that poor woman never heard from her husband again, but do you know what happened to him? Did he die in the voyage? Remarry and start a new family in his new country?

[familywilliams]

You are NOT the only one who remembers American Tale. As soon as you said the "streets are paved with cheese" line, the song started running through my head... if it doesn't stop, then I may need to look it up and have it play on repeat for a while.

[simonnielsen]

"God save me from all that is Swedish"
Not a bad prayer really.



Love from Denmark

[DFloyd]

One of my great grandfathers was one of those Lithuanian Jews who fled the pogroms to North America.

[andersonandrighi]

Interesting fact: the US censos says the most common ancestry in the US is not of English American or Scottish American, but of German American (14%). Irish is second (10%). Many German American changed their surename due to WW I and WW II. Anglicising their names was an strategy to avoid persecution during the national fevor of both wars.

[thedutchman]

Okay.
This entire series has been pretty excellent so far.
But this has got to be the best episode yet. Which really says a lot about how good this episode was. Heck... It might be one of the best vids on your entire channel. And that's saying even more.

Important stuff that still, sadly, affects us all to this day.

[admiii]

I was once offered a good job in Saudi Arabia at _triple pay._ The only hitch was that I had to sign a contract to work there for a full seven years. What a deal, I thought. But, _it's a whole other country!_ How will I get along? What if I don't like it? What's the food like, the housing, the city life? I cringed and stayed with what I knew..

The fact that millions of people at this time, with even less information about the new home they'd chosen that I, willingly emigrated, makes them way more brave than I will ever be. Even to this day, their vitality helps make my country great.

[AmericPet]

I love how this channel puts historical situations into perspective. Not just sighting the wealthy but also more of the poor and marginalized perspectives.

[garrett]

My great grandparents were Swedes, and the others were Irish. If not for immigration, I’d be somewhere in the North Sea. Glad I’m a good swimmer. Thanks John