Animated Map Shows History Of Immigration To The US

In 1607, the English established their first permanent settlement in Jamestown, Virginia.
Over the coming centuries, millions of people from around the globe were attracted to this New World that came to be the US for a chance at a better life.
Today, more than 1 in 8 Americans are immigrants, and almost all are descendants of those born in foreign lands.
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[@BadgerCheese94]

"Less than 2% have Native American ancestry." Not exactly. Maybe US Native American ancestry, but most Mexicans have substantial amounts of Native American ancestry.

[@xavierh3264]

BadgerCheese94 i think he meant the 13 colonies DNA

[@BadgerCheese94]

Not that either. The Sioux Indians aren't of the original 13 colonies.

[@xavierh3264]

BadgerCheese94 oh sorry i didn't read it right. Now i see he meant native americans

[@tacorevenge87]

BadgerCheese94 nicely said

[@TheCrypticKnight]

Mexicans are not native to the USA, most are not even native to Mexico. Stop trying to paint them as US natives, they are not.

[@KorZen10]

"Not Specified" Um... Where did they come from? Antarctica? Space?

[@dukes1993724]

NƎcktie3223 ALIENS!

[@KorZen10]

Kush MasterB So... space. xddd

[@lee177swgoh]

NƎcktie3223 the ground

[@kvivalarazaese6189]

NƎcktie3223 No its from NOT SPECIFIED , its a hidden world of unspecified people

[@jainabas]

It just means that they didn't participate in the census, it's like taking a survey but pressing the no opinion button

[@dukes1993724]

My parents immigrated from India in the 1980's. We love the USA!

[@davidb8777]

With all due respect, that's kind of a no brainer...

[@luisjorge110]

Damn, 2 racists.

[@sasmalprasanjit2764]

@Bleed Green, My parents did'nt immigrated from India in the 1980's. Coz We love India Stayed back in Desperate SOCIALIST ECONOMY to get over, & NOW m a MEDS STUDENTS... I will Work for My country to Make it a Better place. So My Advice : PLZ make ur America Proud, But don't COME back to India, it's Request. 🙏🙏🙏

[@theabstudios3174]

Your So lucky! Your parents are the reason for your happiness

[@dukes1993724]

PRASANJIT SASMAL I’m not an Indian citizen lol, why would I want to go back?

[@RandomPerson-db7fj]

Am I reading this right? "3 million aliens" Wtf?

[@shashanksekhar2269]

*Puts on tinfoil hat* THEY ARE AMONG US

[@thisismyname8621]

Alien just means foreign. We typically think from space but it can be from counties as well.

[@mansamusa1743]

Random Person27 its a euphemism for illegal immigrants, and sometimes and insult too America is weird

[@tmbpyrotechnics9490]

dats a lot of fuckin aliens

[@mathewb5566]

Random Person27 all are in Area 51

[@liamcrawford9861]

We are definitely a county of immigrants. That's one thing I like about our country. One thing that makes it special.

[@gamingforaday5446]

Nope

[@danialhalal]

@@gamingforaday5446 what country you come from? I'm pretty sure the US is quite better than your country

[@zoya9199]

@@danialhalal You have a mindset of a child 👶 plz grow up

[@plutonian2770]

@Danial says Oof >I'm pretty sure the US is better than your country Bruuh

[@danialhalal]

@@zoya9199 Would you care to explain why you say so? Any bland statement is very useless, just like mine that i did not back up due to limited evidence.

[@thatamerican550]

It's amazing to see how many people came to the US on wooden ships and steam boats, airplanes truly are a modern marvel

[@michaelteasdill6410]

@Business Insider I hear lovely music, but you forgot to reference it in your details above. What is it please?

[@AirWick694]

I feel bad for you. 5 years, still unanswered.😢

[@BrianHoff04]

I think some people are looking at the numbers as if they were the population of the US at that time. The numbers are how many people came to the US during that period of time. There is no number of the actual population shown in the animation.

[@SAURABHKUMAR-uk5gg]

This is the best animation explanation of this topic I’ve ever seen. Kudos to the creator !! ❤🎉💯

[@393Dan]

This video with the music in the background reminds me of Age of Empires 3

[@bleepbloop9123]

Weird to call enslaved people “immigrants,” no??????

[@cuauhtemocmiquiztli8503]

we native Americans we are still alive 60 millions from Alaska to Argentina.

[@pauleffinger7122]

I'm in that 2% with Native American ancestry.

[@victorh06]

Paul Effinger I have native American blood I'm mexican

[@charlech]

eww

[@kvivalarazaese6189]

Victor Holguin same carnal

[@theyungone-cg8ck]

Paul Effinger I'm 100% native American

[@deemac3470]

Im about 45%, hey!

[@gthomasserino5688]

Not even a mention of the six million Italian immigrants that arrived here between 1880 and 1930, despite the Johnson-Reed Act (Immigration act of 1924) which specifically targeted Italians and Jews for exclusion. Many died in Hitler's Europe as a result. Others immigrated to South America. It wasn't "Europeans" who immigrated here in the Great Wave of Immigration. It was predominantly Italians. Jews were second. Italians were fleeing famine and extreme poverty resulting from a series of natural disasters (earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, drought, etc.) as well as oppressive landowners exploiting the cheap labor of peasants, paying them starvation wages. And even though Italians were subject to oppressive working conditions in the USA (we were the lowest paid laborers in the 1910's), violence, exclusion and oppression, they still came.

[@jay-am6708]

What music you guys used?

[@klaust117]

What is the song for this video called - can it be found anywhere?

[@angelestrada8665]

I love this music you can almost cry

[@gabbym333]

Beautiful video!

[@michaelg4258]

Very nice presentation

[@chaosXP3RT]

On my Dad's side, my great-great-great grandfather moved here from Germany in the 1860's because he didn't like the German Kaiser. On my Mom's side, my great-great Grandmother was a French-Canadian immigrant who married a Polish immigrant.

[@verky56]

Do any of you know how to make this with PowerPoint, excel? Not like a video but an interactive map that when I scroll, it shows the different projects?

[@sizzle2723]

Search it up

[@maheshkatta9278]

This video is a re-post. But I liked the music and the video.

[@tanjuyiyitalp6580]

Backround music??

[@54lolman]

"Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" It may not be perfect. But its a chance.

[@nobilesnovushomo58]

If their willing to make their own way... I shouldn't have to pay for them. They took the risk for opportunity, same as everybody else. People coming from Europe came with nothing but a few suitcases and trunks, not a single consideration that they would be cared for... And they built Guilded Age New York. Also a keynote here... the embargo on immigrants was mainly on Italians and Eastern Europeans... Italians used to have problems and the Mafia and rackets (co-ercing family businesses with "Racketeering") "Originally and often still specifically, a "racket" referred to a criminal act in which the perpetrator or perpetrators fraudulently offer a service that will not be put into effect, a service to solve a nonexistent problem, or to solve a problem that would not exist without the racket. Particularly, the potential problem may be caused by the same party that offers to solve it, but that fact may be concealed, with the specific intent to engender continual patronage for this party."

[@USA50_]

The statue of liberty is not public policy. We need people from different classes and economic backgrounds. Thanks 😄🇺🇸❤️

[@DangerWrap]

In my opinion. The music makes me feel sad, despite the USA is always the country for people who need peace and chance. (In some specific era.)

[@alfredojaimes4875]

Very Informative! Phenomenal! Que siga la diversidad.

[@grant8928]

Most of my ancestors came from England area in 1800's.

[@Bill-rr5el]

2016 is when 50% of people left america

[@Ivanrrcdffgg]

Lollapool Awesome 😂

[@xLiLtEmPeR]

Lollapool Awesome still waiting

[@moscoweagle2846]

And in 2018 is when another 50% left due to trumps racist comments and holding people on our border hostage for years and to lazy to pay for a wall himself and the liberals and people being racist to Mexicans that have been living in the country for years/or born in the country Just saying.

[@aegonii8471]

It’s 2018 and the liberals are still here

[@user-fl9fp5vi7d]

Seeing a video of a liberal crying and screaming in agony is so satisfying.

[@wjhandy]

Free wheeling in the unknown was over by 1890's across most of the americas. Civilization kicks in with laws and all that comes with it.

[@michaelteasdill6410]

@Business Insider I hear lovely music, but you forgot to reference it in your details above. What is it please? 5 years still no reply oh dear!!

[@bentai952]

Who else if being forced against their will to watch this for school?

[@sophieaa_]

Me for English Lesson

[@Jimothyjohns]

I'm not being forced against my will because I like to learn about history, but this has been assigned.

[@calder7406]

@@Jimothyjohns or do you

[@candice8426]

me

[@yen887]

The Cubans have a good reason to actually be immigrating to the USA.

[@MacStatic]

I'm native american :) but the 2% number is very alarming.

[@salutic.7544]

Mackenson Sparks its more like 5 - 10

[@speedy01247]

2% is around 6,400,000 people.

[@luddity]

It's not accurate. The genocide of native peoples was much less thorough south of the current border with Mexico. Most of the people now tagged as illegals are actually their descendants. Many places in Mexico still speak their indigenous languages more than Spanish.

[@claudeusgothicus6453]

@@luddity - except the native peoples south of the border are not the same genetically as the native americans north of the border that are being talked about.. different people.. different DNA.. the term native american refers to american indians..

[@npc3758]

Their share mostly reduced due to centuries of Immigration. Similarly white population shrank from almost 90% in 1960s to now 60% and will become minority in USA by 2040. Due to 1965 Immigration act.

[@nicholasrising7655]

This is the best immigration animation I have ever seen!

[@luddity]

Except it should've started about 15,000 years ago when this continent was first populated and go on from there.

[@groggle_noggle3348]

@Mathijs Krijger, de It’s the period when the first Native Americans arrived.

[@nickjd121]

@@groggle_noggle3348 this is about the country. not the landmass.

[@groggle_noggle3348]

@@nickjd121 This shows the country’s immigration, and that’s where it started!

[@gbarthg]

@@groggle_noggle3348 Thank you. It's an important point that people tend to forget.

[@storflod1963]

i thnk the same way we had homework with this vid

[@lukerislove8122]

Very interesting video

[@davidchristensen6908]

This does not go back far enough. All humans in North America migrated to here. This time line starts in the 1700’s. This is incomplete

[@senorbailey5496]

I have native American ancestry (Cherokee) 1/6 and Irish ancestry 1/8

[@gbarthg]

At 2:42, the text states that Lyndon Johnson removed the quota system. This isn't true. President Johnson changed the quota system so that it no longer favored immigrants from Europe. He didn't eliminate it: he simply leveled the playing field.

[@rlenn6512]

Completely neglects the Eurasian peoples whom crossed the land bridge and are the actual Native Americans. They had a history which has been blotted out. Is European and African immigration lessened by that fact, no.

[@aegonii8471]

Robert Lenn Nah you are wrong the Europeans actually walked across the Atlantic Ocean.

[@hornyhornyhippo4397]

The script reads that almost all people are descendants of immigrants, which implies that some are not, insinuating the Native Americans. If Native American history has been "blotted out", how do you know about them, why do I remember learning about them in school and doing multiple projects on their existence, and how do you expect anyone to understand what you're talking about?

[@hornyhornyhippo4397]

*who crossed the land bridge

[@user-fl9fp5vi7d]

I think this video is talking about the United States. I don't think the US became a country when the landbridge between Russia and NA was a thing.

[@tposechicken2706]

I am curious, where did the Native American percent source come from?

[@alexandermllerholm8763]

Come on up the quality please

[@user-kh1lx5yw5d]

Exclusion Act of 1882 was one of the stupidest law ever. It banned Chinese from entering the US for 60 years. If such law never existed, today’s Chinese American population would be equivalent to that of the blacks. A larger Chinese American population would make America much stronger in almost all aspects, especially when it comes to education, technology and economy. Think about this.

[@BluePotatoHead]

Are you implying that Chinese people are smarter than black people? If so, go to Hawaii, you will see plenty of Chinese people with the same education level as a black person in a low income area. Today’s Chinese immigrants are not the same as the immigrants from 1850’s, but give any immigrant 100 years, and you will see that everyone becomes American. That intense rigor that your talking about is the immigrant drive for a better life. Which goes away after two generations. I don’t think you realize how your mind is forming these micro aggressions. As a Mongolian, I will say that I have met plenty of brilliant black scientists as much as Chinese. Race is a social construct. We need to build each other.

[@roybrayjr.3078]

Fascinating video; Great work!

[@pietpalzer4122]

🧔🏿‍♀

[@VCYT]

2 MISTAKES The 1790 census showed most immigrants were from England, an they were colonisers. The 1st English settlement was in Roanoke Virginia in 1585 which later moved inland.

[@caulkins69]

You are confused. The Roanoke Colony was on Roanoke Island, which is not the same place as Roanoke, Virginia. The settlers disappeared; their fate is a matter of conjecture.

[@Diegoj2g31]

Probably about 20% have Native American ancestry Latin American are descendants of Native Americans in both North and South America. And many are still fully native still speaking one of the hundreds native Americans dialects of this continent.

[@nathanjames2115]

I'm not an immigrant. I was born here. I wouldn't say I'm fro Ireland.

[@davidclark5051]

Not an immigrant, but you are the descendant of immigrants. Most of us are, if you count the first Europeans as immigrants. That was my takeaway from the video.

[@asishpradhan1233]

NathanJames 2 ,ah..but you carry genes from Ireland..

[@deemac3470]

A new nationality will emerge in the USA in the next 50 years, once enough blood is mixed from immigrants and not one is dominant over the others. Of course if the empire doesnt collapse

[@monkeypie8701]

Didn't you see the numbers going down when the immigrants stopped coming, that means they're born there

[@monkeypie8701]

David Clark, everyone in the USA is an immigrant except for the Native American Indians

[@dreamcore]

The USA is not the successor state to the Indian Nations.

[@deprogramm]

there were no indian nations.

[@dreamcore]

Vasting There were and there are. en.wikipedia.org The point is that Europeans colonized; they did not immigrate.

[@deprogramm]

***** They did immigrate after colonization and those TRIBES, never did anything but fight each other and commit devastation on one another. It actually wasn't until the colonizers who lived on the coast away from the tribes got attacked, and sparked war which they lost.

[@dreamcore]

+Vasting That I won't argue, just the presentation here of "pre-1790" peoples as "immigrants", as if they came to join the tribes.

[@DreameverCompany]

Some were nomadic tribes, others were sendentary tribes, others were federations, others were city states, others were kingdoms or empires. In any case they were nations, and were recognized as such by the europeans and later the americans and are recognized as such by modern day academics (and i don't mean those "women studies" retards, i mean serious academics like anthropologists, archaeologists, historians, filologists, etc). The native american nations acomplished A LOT of things, but also fought each others and devastated each others, just like the europeans, just like any other human civilization. The europeans were more technologically advanced, yes, but that doesn't mean that you can just disregard evrything the indians accomplished. The europeans didn't live away from them, they colonized directly in their lands.

[@user-xq8ru4gm8i]

I think China was the second developing country in Asia（Japan is the first), because the first batch of Asians all came from China that means they are developed

[@alovioanidio9770]

Please make a video like this for South America, there were a lot of immigration

[@RH-lv4xf]

don't worry to much about this we all gonna die and leave this place

[@WheresMyLeader]

Please Sir May i Have Some More?

[@noahcyr5128]

My ancestors came from Canada

[@IceEpikFace]

Saw this in class right now

[@ScipeoX]

why isnt count all the inmigrants from the spaniards territories wich where there before the british.

[@smoll.miniatures]

This could have been awesome but you really missed the mark. It’s so hard to read and understand. A graph showing a physical percentage would have been my better.

[@nospacitogaming1794]

my aunt was an immigrant to the america in 1990

[@decode_d]

0:52 92 people from Asia decided' You know what?How about we immargrate to America fuck our towns fuck the rice im going to Murica!

[@salutic.7544]

I I Decode_Cypher I I those poor lonely souls 😂

[@speedy01247]

Well that was before America had a west coast.

[@theproGAMAS]

Less than 2% what? I feel like that might not be right lol

[@user-zx8de8op9l]

Well done, shows how we got so many people and when they came.

[@gamingforaday5446]

You forgot people from siberia ( russia ) migrated to north america

[@stateofoklahoma4099]

Why are new mexico and Oklahoma arent with their border

[@OnkarPachhade]

everyone is immigrant exept native americans...

[@DutchTDK]

Onkar Pachhade They immigrated too at some point. And though it might be a longer time ago, there is no clear definition of whom is of immigrant ancestry. A line has to be drawn somewhere and why wouldn't it be drawn 300 years ago. in a time when europeans were already there for some time

[@Kanadabalsam]

You know there's "native americans" Outside the U.S right? like in Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, there's native americans in pretty much all the continent.

[@DutchTDK]

Ablated They are all native americans. However they are called different. The natives of washington state and vancouver area are truly not that much different

[@N9mber]

Onkar Pachhade The US stared in 1776 which means those people before the creation are considered settlers of the us as a nation

[@N9mber]

yes the keyword in your statement is countries, America isn't a country the USA, Canada and Mexico are countries before that people living in the area are considered settlers. Just like the Ancient Britons when the ice age ended and they migrated to Britain they are not considered Immigrants but settlers.

[@notonlyy0urs518]

what is this?

[@lennycrew3]

How relevant this is right now. We are a nation of immigrants, a nation that took in other people as refugees looking to escape violence and conflict in their own land.

[@larrybreyer4066]

How did the "Native Americans" get to America? Did the evolve from the animals? Or, did they migrate from Asia? Before farming, everyone migrated in search of food. Every single human being is an immigrant to wherever he is currently living. Nice animation. But, ultimately flawed.

[@ryandebruin9221]

Nice I'm part of that 2% of Native American descent.

[@fr22d]

wasn’t some of florida found in the 1600s

[@monkeypie8701]

umm, No! Back then it was part of a country called Mexico!

[@Randomstuffs261]

LIT

[@brendanjrice7307]

I can only think what happened when my native american side clashed with my European side

[@nonchalantd]

beautiful

[@Schwaboss]

I NEED A EUROPEAN VERSION, does this exist?

[@rubengallardomusic]

Somebody should show this video to trump to show we are a nation of immigrants

[@youforeign3066]

Ruben Gallardo Yes! Although we should get a handle on our immigration laws.

[@mroof523]

YES, LEGAL IMMIGRATION

[@angelestrada8665]

I want to know!!

[@aarontolomeo4549]

idk why but this music reminds me of gta 5

[@TRex-dd4ze]

settlers are not immigrants and pioneering immigrants who assimilated are not the same as immigrants who make a nation within a nation

[@baule4475]

not going to start an argument i need sleep

[@anotheraccount2052]

Shame what many families never realize is when you come to America tradition is lost I am thankfully not one of those but my cousins they can’t understand a word in our family native language... I have to translate everything with them and with the high Italian community I live in they aren’t Italian (neither am I) they don’t know Italian and many don’t take pride in that country and don’t even learn it when offered as a class.... American dream a beautiful thing but it’s sadly a killer of the past...

[@saltandpepper6288]

Haaaaa I'm part of that 2% my third great grandmother was Native American

[@aussie_anarchist]

Free movement of people and labour is objectively good for all of us.

[@herpsenderpsen]

This comment section sums up pretty well why the rest of the world think Americans are a mess.

[@jacobdale723]

All of humans is immigrants we all came from space We're aliens

[@axeflys]

We might be descendents of Mr Bean then :)

[@akhilt9583]

the background music was so epic

[@evanruizjr294]

We were already here!!

[@pokemonpikapikachulibre3416]

My mom escaped Vietnam war, thats why I watched this lol

[@matei8master8]

why does the music has to be so somber? for God's sakes, we're talking about MIGRATION here, people moving from one country to another, why does it have to be so omnious?

[@SaneAsylum]

1800 US population: over 5 million. (Slaves made up around 1% of the total).

[@RithvijEditzz]

Meanwhile indians going to Canada 🤣🤣

[@altay6320]

Well I can say one good thing about Europe I'm glad they were here first and came in Mass numbers

[@alvertdavidfigueroa5326]

They weren't here first, but they did come in several waves.

[@orangestea4527]

I gues I have immigration DNA in me because my great-great-great grandma turns out to be Native American time to go live with the cherokee

[@jameseldridge3445]

Why in school do they always teach the positives of immigration but not the negatives?

[@romanpanmei2647]

And as the toes of the feet were partly iron and partly clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong and partly brittle. As you saw the iron mixed with soft clay, so they will mix with one another in marriage, but they will not hold together, just as iron does not mix within clay. Daniel 2:42-43

[@erikdumas9873]

Then don't marry "clay." Meanwhile, I and everyone else who doesn't follow your particular religious views will continue to do whatever we damn well please. This is a secular nation, so it is not bound to follow your religion.

[@dukes1993724]

ROMAN PANMEI So sad that you let a 2000 year old book control your life. BTW, that book was written by MEN, not God. And it has been revised numerous times over the course of history to fit the agenda of whomever was controlling the church at the time

[@speedy01247]

and who in this is the "clay, vs the "iron"? honestly it's stupid, my family is strongly christian yet several of my cousins are married to people of different "races" to our own.

[@ismailthual6562]

ratio

[@fabi138]

Réel akhy

[@BunchOfStuff]

When Asia and Oceania occupies an American country more than the Americans.

[@DefianceGal]

Native Americans were immigrants at one point. Nomads til they found their place like all humans have done in the past.

[@PoeCompany]

i have Native American ancestry in my blood. I"m the 2%

[@L0RDK3Y]

I’m mostly have African and European heritage but I also have 20% Native American DNA so yea

[@R1D3R2]

Funny tho, this map shows them like they are the heroes and all the wars that everyone escaped were made by them...

[@aashikify]

Red Indians are real natives.

[@eatinsomtin9984]

Well all Americans are European immigrants as the natives were the original source yeah

[@Will-wi7hv]

You forgot that the Russians had colonies on the West Coast in the 1700-1600s

[@chilligechilii8022]

Ist hier jmd deutsch?