America: Promised Land: Migrants Travel West on the Oregon Trail | History

Over 400,000 people travel West to start a new life and claim new land along the Oregon Trail, including Lucinda Brown. One-hundred seventy years later, one of her descendants sees a kettle from her journey for the first time. #AmericaPromisedLand

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America: Promised Land
Season 1
Episode 1
America: Promised Land

"America: Promised Land" chronicles the massive immigration patterns of ethnic groups to the United States, anchored by interviews with descendants of ancestors and geographical imagery that showcases the history of how America was populated.

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[LegoSwordViedos]

All you people doing it to study, I'm just playing the Oragon trail game.

[.fmthefever]

When did they have VANS shoes back in the day 2:22 😂😂😂

[Luna-cobb]

Pause at 2:22 when they pan down at the ground… like…
Is she really wearing vans rn??😂

[zosimopablo]

It's a great movie, with astounding scenery and marvelous story of adventure and astonishing and enthusiastic facts and revelations

[ronniebishop]

Can you imagine the courage it takes to move your family across the Oregon Trail and not know that even though the Holy Road, the Indians name for the Oregon Trail, meaning not to touch anyone going over it. You still might not make it. Lol

[venkatsagapuram]

I’m here to just write an essay about this stuff

[rychiavila]

I'm doing a social studies project i chose this topic. I'm doing parts like why it was dangerous such as disease mountain ranges and rivers

[cristinamedrano]

I learn this at school so thanks for the help😀

[sunsince]

I’m studying it at school and I love it

[diegopena]

When he finds out it's a pot he looks so confused!😆🤣

[angietheburritod]

my teacher great grandpa went on the oregon trail and help people with there wagons

[Knqneal]

And if she came back from the dead and was shown this pot... she'd say. Yeah that's a pot I used....so what.

[tydengr]

The trip should start from Winter, journey should in summer, and end at winter.

[deanna]

These comments confuse me? These people came to America with a dream of a better life. America is the land of the brave and the free. Oregon Trail was for those not to lazy to go find it. God bless us all.

[jacoblian]

oh! so this were the mewmans came from

[husnainhyder]

Man Texas is so huge
Huger then Punjab Pakistan

[DL-puod]

when you have to study this because of covid 19

[yiddowpeanut]

"everything was yours for the taking" yes thats called colonization and believing land that already belonged to other people is yours to take

[joedirt]

That’s after America took California fro mexico

[chickenplane]

shes been dead for like 200 years and bros crying😂