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Cody Crouch: American Idol | Centuries Collide

December 4, 2024 | S2:E14

Cody Crouch: American Idol | Centuries Collide
Host Cody Crouch takes us on an unforgettable ride through the moments that made the U.S.A. the country it is today.
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Centuries Collide TBN Version | Cody Crouch: American Idol | Centuries Collide | December 4, 2024
  • - i am cody crouch. on my new show centuries collide
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  • American history,
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  • I'm traveling across the united states uncovering
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  • The incredibly true history of what makes our
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  • Nation so great.
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  • We're recreating some of american history's
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  • Greatest moments, exactly how they happened.
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  • - didn't you think the rock would be bigger?
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  • - welcome to the craziest, strangest most whateverest
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  • Crash course on american history.
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  • Buckle up.
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  • It's time for centuries collide.
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  • Today we're in new york city, the entry point for
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  • Millions of immigrants at the turn of the century,
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  • And we're talking about one of the first american
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  • Faces they ever saw, but before we get to that,
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  • New york is, has, and always will be
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  • Under construction.
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  • Sorry about the mess, but this is a pretty good
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  • Metaphor for the reconstruction era.
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  • That was the time just after the civil war when
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  • The nation was done tearing itself apart and
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  • Attempting to put itself back together.
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  • America had put an end to slavery and given its
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  • Black citizens the right to vote and own land, and
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  • As america formed this new national identity, it
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  • Needed a new symbol.
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  • She's over 140 years old, stands 305 feet tall
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  • Including her pedestal, and is covered entirely
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  • Of copper plating.
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  • She's starred movies like spiderman, x-men, planet
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  • Of the apes, and who can forget ghostbusters 2?
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  • Actually, maybe everyone should forget
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  • Ghostbusters 2, but her biggest role is welcoming
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  • Every immigrant who has ever entered new york harbor.
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  • She is the statue of liberty, but how did she
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  • Get here and why?
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  • And what's up with the pointy hat?
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  • Let's find out.
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  • ♪♪
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  • You know, liberty's not just comforting.
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  • She's a pretty tough lady, and you would be too if
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  • You had wolverine fighting mutants on your
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  • Head or you were struck by lightning
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  • 600 times a year.
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  • That part is true.
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  • In fact, you could even say that there were lots
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  • Of ladies throughout history who auditioned to
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  • Become the american idol.
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  • - welcome to idol search, a fake game show
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  • To explain how we got the creation of america's
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  • Favorite symbol.
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  • Today we are looking for the ultimate
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  • American idol.
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  • She's got to stand tall with humility.
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  • She's got to be strong but soft.
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  • She's got to be the ultimate symbol of
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  • Freedom, inspiration, and hope.
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  • - i hate this - for many,
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  • Lady liberty's, the first thing they think of when
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  • They think of america.
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  • Over 4 million people flock to liberty island
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  • To see the statue every year.
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  • She's regal, she's beautiful, and well,
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  • She's green, but we'll get to that part later.
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  • Long before uncle sam first appeared in the
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  • 19th century, artists struggled to depict
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  • America as a woman.
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  • Many nations took to a masculine image when it
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  • Came to war or conquering, but when it
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  • Came to symbolizing a homeland, they took to
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  • The woman.
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  • In this way, a nation takes the form of a
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  • Mother figure, a place that nourishes and feeds,
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  • And the look of this american woman has
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  • Changed wildly over the years.
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  • In the 16th century, european explorers told
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  • Stories of an exotic new world filled with strange
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  • Plants, animals, and peoples. to those at home,
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  • The new world might as well have been a fantasy
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  • Land of alien creatures.
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  • I mean, if you'd never seen an armadillo before,
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  • You'd probably freak out too.
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  • I mean, what even are they, armored rat pigs?
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  • [plant chatters jibberish]
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  • Drawing upon these tales, european artists created
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  • A queen america to stand for the entire
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  • Western hemisphere.
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  • ♪♪
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  • - i'm friends with queen africa, queen asia and
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  • Queen europa.
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  • You know, the four continents.
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  • - there are seven continents.
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  • - not all yet discovered.
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  • And like me, i'm ready to be discovered.
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  • [singing opera]
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  • - when we return,
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  • We'll see america as a rebellious daughter.
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  • ♪ no taxation without representation...
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  • - the rebellious daughter was created by
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  • Satirists in the mid 1800s.
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  • The united states was no longer unmodern, so a
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  • Queen america didn't really work for the
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  • Founding fathers.
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  • They needed an icon with some spunk, so they came up
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  • With another icon, a rebellious daughter.
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  • - a young, vigorous, and freedom loving.
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  • ♪ and i won't drink that stupid tea, huh ...
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  • - what is happening?
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  • - whatever.
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  • I'm out of here.
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  • - well, that didn't work.
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  • - up next on idol search america as lady columbia --
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  • - don't make me use my sword.
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  • - created in the mid 1800s, her name was derived
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  • From the explorer christopher columbus illustrated as a
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  • Greco-roman goddess with a flowing gown.
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  • She wore pristine white or the stars and stripes.
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  • Columbia displayed american virtues with her
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  • Cap of liberty, her sword of justice, the olive
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  • Branch of peace, and the laurel wreath of victory.
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  • ♪♪
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  • - you've most likely seen our next
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  • Contestant before.
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  • She's lady columbia.
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  • - i am military power.
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  • I support the black vote, the women's vote, and
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  • Women's place in the war.
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  • - in political cartoons,
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  • Columbia stood beside nurses in world war i and
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  • Charged the ahead for women's suffrage.
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  • Once the 19th amendment was approved in 1920,
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  • Women finally had the right to vote and
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  • Columbia became somewhat obsolete.
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  • Once again, a new female figure had to take her place.
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  • The new idea was a goddess of liberty
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  • Modeled after roman goddess of freedom, an
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  • Ancient look, but with american twist, and what's
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  • More american than freedom?
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  • After the passage of the 13th amendment which
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  • Abolished slavery, the united states needed an
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  • Icon that would stand up for liberty.
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  • She wasn't standing in the harbor until october
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  • 28th, 1886, but the idea of her had been around
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  • For a long time since the end of the civil war
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  • Bouncing around the head of a french history
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  • Professor. the creator of the statue was edouard de
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  • Laboulaye born in paris to a wealthy family.
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  • He spent most of his career studying law
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  • History and writing books.
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  • But when he began studying us law, he grew
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  • More and more outspoken against slavery.
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  • So as a gift for passing the 13th amendment that
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  • Ended slavery, the french gave, the united states
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  • The statue of liberty. she would walk us into
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  • The 20th century with those big beautiful sandals.
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  • The original design of the statue depicted
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  • Liberty of holding chains and not a torch with open
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  • Shackles at her feet, all symbolizing the end
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  • Of slavery.
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  • Unfortunately, jim crow laws kept the lingering
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  • Stain of discrimination in our society.
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  • There was still too much racial tension and many
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  • Black citizens felt that these symbols actually
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  • Trivialized their struggles.
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  • This made lavalle rethink the shackles.
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  • The design was reduced to just chains laying around
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  • Her feet, and she would hold her famous tablet
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  • Instead. her copper form would need an internal
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  • Steel structure to support it created by
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  • None other than alexander gustav
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  • Eiffel as in yeah, that eiffel.
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  • It took nine years to build the statue in
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  • France using a combination of new
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  • Engineering techniques and old craftsmanship.
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  • Craftsmen would assemble the large pieces
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  • One at a time.
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  • Then they shipped the torch to america to be
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  • Displayed at an expo in philadelphia. while the
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  • Head and shoulders were on exhibit in paris,
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  • All the while the base was being built in the us
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  • The statue of skin was created using the repousse'
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  • Technique, which is just a fancy french word for
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  • Hammering thin designs
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  • To create a reliefed design.
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  • The statue was shipped to the united states in
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  • Pieces like one ear at a time and was reassembled
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  • With surprising speed, and get this,
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  • Many of the people who helped reassemble the
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  • Statue were new immigrants.
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  • The statue's face was the final section completed
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  • And was kept completely covered until
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  • Its dedication.
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  • Construction finally ended in 1886.
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  • This lady was not a cheap date.
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  • Taking her out on the town costs $650,000 paid
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  • For by both countries.
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  • France would pay for the statue and america would
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  • Pay for the base.
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  • Believe it or not, the money wouldn't come from
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  • The us government.
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  • Instead it would be privately funded in one
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  • Of the largest fundraising campaigns of
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  • All time.
  • 00:09:38.567 --> 00:09:39.702
  • In order to put her in the new york harbor, the
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  • Money would be raised from everyday people like
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  • You and me.
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  • There were prize fights, auctions, theatrical
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  • Events. even famous newsy tycoon and nefarious
  • 00:09:48.744 --> 00:09:51.113
  • Newsy villain
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  • Joseph pulitzer got in on the fundraising game.
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  • If you donated enough money, he'd print your
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  • Name in the paper.
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  • Finally, on october 28th, 1886, we had ourselves a
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  • New american idol.
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  • ♪♪
  • 00:10:06.262 --> 00:10:07.096
  • - the results are in. it only took
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  • A hundred years.
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  • Your next american idol will be announced after
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  • This message.
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  • - i will punch you in the throat.
  • 00:10:13.836 --> 00:10:15.071
  • - yeah, me too.
  • 00:10:15.071 --> 00:10:16.072
  • [bars and tone]
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  • - and the message is now.
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  • Ladies and gentlemen, please meet your new
  • 00:10:17.773 --> 00:10:20.076
  • American idol.
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  • - you are a star.
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  • - even i think you're spectacular.
  • 00:10:25.681 --> 00:10:28.284
  • - now about that pointy hat.
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  • Every part of the lady is symbolic.
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  • - every part of that getup looks like
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  • It's symbolic.
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  • - tell us everything.
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  • - the torch represents enlightenment, lighting
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  • The way to freedom.
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  • The current torch is a copper flame made with 24
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  • Karat gold.
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  • The crown represents a radiant halo or the rays
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  • Of the bright morning sun.
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  • The seven spikes represent the seven dwarfs.
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  • - yeah, no.
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  • They represent the seven continents and the seven
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  • Seas of the world.
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  • The tablet of law bears the date of american
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  • Independence, july 4th, 1776 in roman numerals.
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  • - your skin is all like green and i am obsessed.
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  • - it's actually made of copper and used to be a
  • 00:11:13.596 --> 00:11:16.665
  • Lovely shade of copper brown, but oxidization
  • 00:11:16.665 --> 00:11:20.369
  • Caused by rain, wind, and sun gave me this
  • 00:11:20.369 --> 00:11:22.938
  • Distinctive green color known as verdigris.
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  • - maybe she's born with it.
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  • Maybe it's verdigirs.
  • 00:11:28.077 --> 00:11:30.312
  • - verdigirs for copper skin.
  • 00:11:30.312 --> 00:11:33.516
  • - at the time, she was the tallest structure in
  • 00:11:33.516 --> 00:11:35.584
  • New york city, and as she drew crowds, she made
  • 00:11:35.584 --> 00:11:38.387
  • Ellis island one of the most popular destinations
  • 00:11:38.387 --> 00:11:41.357
  • In the world. in the early 19th century,
  • 00:11:41.357 --> 00:11:44.160
  • Before ellis island became the entry point
  • 00:11:44.160 --> 00:11:46.796
  • For immigrants into the united states, the island
  • 00:11:46.796 --> 00:11:49.698
  • Was a place to bring pirates and criminals and
  • 00:11:49.698 --> 00:11:52.868
  • Put them to death.
  • 00:11:52.868 --> 00:11:54.370
  • New yorkers called it gibbet island after the wooden
  • 00:11:54.370 --> 00:11:56.906
  • Post or gibbet or the dead were displayed. ugh!
  • 00:11:56.906 --> 00:11:59.942
  • The name changed to ellis island in 1839 when new
  • 00:11:59.942 --> 00:12:04.613
  • York merchant samuel ellis purchased it and
  • 00:12:04.613 --> 00:12:07.716
  • Built a tavern here.
  • 00:12:07.716 --> 00:12:09.919
  • The island served as a navy munitions depot
  • 00:12:09.919 --> 00:12:11.921
  • Before it was turned into a federal
  • 00:12:11.921 --> 00:12:13.622
  • Immigration station.
  • 00:12:13.622 --> 00:12:16.125
  • At the same time, the statue was going up,
  • 00:12:16.125 --> 00:12:17.993
  • Millions of immigrants started arriving into new
  • 00:12:17.993 --> 00:12:20.796
  • York harbor and the association stuck
  • 00:12:20.796 --> 00:12:23.165
  • Cementing old liberty as a welcome to
  • 00:12:23.165 --> 00:12:25.100
  • All immigrants.
  • 00:12:25.100 --> 00:12:27.236
  • And it's a welcome that she still extends
  • 00:12:27.236 --> 00:12:28.571
  • To this day.
  • 00:12:28.571 --> 00:12:30.673
  • On liberty's pedestal, there's a bronze plaque,
  • 00:12:30.673 --> 00:12:32.675
  • Which bears the lines from a famous poem
  • 00:12:32.675 --> 00:12:34.810
  • By 1800s author, emma lazarus.
  • 00:12:34.810 --> 00:12:38.380
  • From her beacon-hand glows worldwide welcome,
  • 00:12:38.380 --> 00:12:40.716
  • Her mild eyes command the air-bridged harbor
  • 00:12:40.716 --> 00:12:43.152
  • That twin cities frame.
  • 00:12:43.152 --> 00:12:45.855
  • Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp,
  • 00:12:45.855 --> 00:12:49.358
  • Cries she with silent lips.
  • 00:12:49.358 --> 00:12:51.961
  • Give me your tired, your poor,
  • 00:12:51.961 --> 00:12:54.563
  • Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
  • 00:12:54.563 --> 00:12:57.433
  • The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
  • 00:12:57.433 --> 00:13:00.669
  • Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me.
  • 00:13:00.669 --> 00:13:04.506
  • I lift my lamp beside the golden door.
  • 00:13:04.506 --> 00:13:08.811
  • - in order to learn more about the statue
  • 00:13:08.811 --> 00:13:10.779
  • Of liberty and everything she represents,
  • 00:13:10.779 --> 00:13:13.015
  • I need to talk to national park ranger
  • 00:13:13.015 --> 00:13:14.850
  • Catherine gibson here on liberty island.
  • 00:13:14.850 --> 00:13:17.853
  • Ranger catherine, thanks for being with us
  • 00:13:17.853 --> 00:13:19.688
  • On centuries collide.
  • 00:13:19.688 --> 00:13:21.390
  • Where exactly are we?
  • 00:13:21.390 --> 00:13:22.725
  • - we are in the torch gallery of the new museum,
  • 00:13:22.725 --> 00:13:24.860
  • As we like to call it,
  • 00:13:24.860 --> 00:13:26.028
  • Here at the statue of liberty on liberty island
  • 00:13:26.028 --> 00:13:28.230
  • In the new york harbor.
  • 00:13:28.230 --> 00:13:29.598
  • - so what kind of things are done to
  • 00:13:29.598 --> 00:13:31.133
  • Maintain the statue?
  • 00:13:31.133 --> 00:13:32.768
  • - she did have some major work at her 100th birthday.
  • 00:13:32.768 --> 00:13:36.071
  • They had made some choices in the early
  • 00:13:36.071 --> 00:13:38.173
  • Years to cut some holes in the original torch,
  • 00:13:38.173 --> 00:13:41.944
  • Trying to turn her into a lighthouse that didn't
  • 00:13:41.944 --> 00:13:44.580
  • Really ever turn out the way that they kind of
  • 00:13:44.580 --> 00:13:46.448
  • Thought that it might turn out.
  • 00:13:46.448 --> 00:13:47.983
  • And that let in a ton of water into the statue
  • 00:13:47.983 --> 00:13:50.019
  • Over those first 100 years.
  • 00:13:50.019 --> 00:13:52.388
  • And on top of that, when you put iron armature
  • 00:13:52.388 --> 00:13:55.291
  • Bars next to copper, it almost turned into a battery.
  • 00:13:55.291 --> 00:13:58.794
  • And so there was a lot of corrosion happening
  • 00:13:58.794 --> 00:14:00.763
  • Inside the statue just based on the engineering
  • 00:14:00.763 --> 00:14:03.299
  • Limitations at the time.
  • 00:14:03.299 --> 00:14:05.067
  • But overall, she's really an independent woman.
  • 00:14:05.067 --> 00:14:07.336
  • The green patina that turns her green really
  • 00:14:07.336 --> 00:14:09.538
  • Takes care of the inside of the statue.
  • 00:14:09.538 --> 00:14:12.641
  • So she doesn't really need a lot of help from us.
  • 00:14:12.641 --> 00:14:15.077
  • - so this is the original torch, correct?
  • 00:14:15.077 --> 00:14:16.879
  • - yes. so this stood on the statue for a hundred years.
  • 00:14:16.879 --> 00:14:19.682
  • I almost appreciate the fact that they made
  • 00:14:19.682 --> 00:14:21.417
  • Basically some mistakes on this torch because it
  • 00:14:21.417 --> 00:14:24.086
  • Means that now we get to get so up close to it.
  • 00:14:24.086 --> 00:14:26.689
  • I mean, you would only be able to get this close
  • 00:14:26.689 --> 00:14:28.724
  • In a helicopter tour.
  • 00:14:28.724 --> 00:14:30.659
  • - when was the poem put on the statue?
  • 00:14:30.659 --> 00:14:32.962
  • - the poem was put on the statue inside the
  • 00:14:32.962 --> 00:14:35.030
  • Pedestal in about 1903.
  • 00:14:35.030 --> 00:14:37.099
  • And it's really interesting because the
  • 00:14:37.099 --> 00:14:38.667
  • Original purpose of the statue was not really to
  • 00:14:38.667 --> 00:14:42.271
  • Celebrate immigration or wasn't really a statement
  • 00:14:42.271 --> 00:14:44.573
  • About immigration.
  • 00:14:44.573 --> 00:14:46.075
  • It was really just a gift from the people of france
  • 00:14:46.075 --> 00:14:48.010
  • To celebrate democracy, to celebrate the
  • 00:14:48.010 --> 00:14:51.180
  • 100 years since the signing of the
  • 00:14:51.180 --> 00:14:52.848
  • Declaration of independence.
  • 00:14:52.848 --> 00:14:54.717
  • It wasn't originally an idea about immigration.
  • 00:14:54.717 --> 00:14:59.288
  • So deciding to put the new colossus inside the
  • 00:14:59.288 --> 00:15:01.824
  • Pedestal and memorialize a poem that's so clearly
  • 00:15:01.824 --> 00:15:04.360
  • About immigration is one of the many reasons why
  • 00:15:04.360 --> 00:15:06.428
  • People hold the statue of liberty as a
  • 00:15:06.428 --> 00:15:08.831
  • Symbol of immigration.
  • 00:15:08.831 --> 00:15:10.666
  • It's also very close in proximity to ellis
  • 00:15:10.666 --> 00:15:12.768
  • Island, which was the first federal immigration
  • 00:15:12.768 --> 00:15:15.270
  • Inspection station in the united states.
  • 00:15:15.270 --> 00:15:17.639
  • So even though that wasn't the original
  • 00:15:17.639 --> 00:15:19.274
  • Intention for the creators of the statue,
  • 00:15:19.274 --> 00:15:21.944
  • Emma lazarus and her legacy definitely helped
  • 00:15:21.944 --> 00:15:24.646
  • To link those two ideas together.
  • 00:15:24.646 --> 00:15:26.982
  • - so who was emma lazarus?
  • 00:15:26.982 --> 00:15:29.685
  • - emma lazarus was a poet in the late 1800s,
  • 00:15:29.685 --> 00:15:32.554
  • And she was also an immigrant activist.
  • 00:15:32.554 --> 00:15:34.189
  • She fought for a lot of jewish causes and she
  • 00:15:34.189 --> 00:15:36.592
  • Wrote the new colossus in order to help raise money
  • 00:15:36.592 --> 00:15:38.794
  • For the pedestal, which had several
  • 00:15:38.794 --> 00:15:40.662
  • Fundraising efforts.
  • 00:15:40.662 --> 00:15:41.897
  • Took quite a bit of time to raise
  • 00:15:41.897 --> 00:15:43.132
  • Money for the pedestal.
  • 00:15:43.132 --> 00:15:44.433
  • - why do you think she's lasted as kind of the
  • 00:15:44.433 --> 00:15:47.770
  • Symbol of american pride in immigration?
  • 00:15:47.770 --> 00:15:50.406
  • - i think the statue is a really good example of a
  • 00:15:50.406 --> 00:15:53.709
  • Symbol that can be flexible and really takes
  • 00:15:53.709 --> 00:15:56.712
  • On whatever community meaning that people
  • 00:15:56.712 --> 00:15:58.580
  • Decide that it's going to mean. every ship that
  • 00:15:58.580 --> 00:16:01.383
  • Enters the harbor kind of has to pass
  • 00:16:01.383 --> 00:16:02.684
  • Right in front of her.
  • 00:16:02.684 --> 00:16:04.153
  • And because she's so neutral and universal,
  • 00:16:04.153 --> 00:16:06.922
  • You're really able to see whatever your own
  • 00:16:06.922 --> 00:16:09.258
  • Personal ideas of liberty and freedom are
  • 00:16:09.258 --> 00:16:11.894
  • In the statue itself.
  • 00:16:11.894 --> 00:16:13.862
  • That's why she's endured as such a symbol of
  • 00:16:13.862 --> 00:16:15.931
  • American pride and freedom.
  • 00:16:15.931 --> 00:16:18.267
  • - she doesn't look too big from here.
  • 00:16:18.267 --> 00:16:19.835
  • The statue's standing just over your head,
  • 00:16:19.835 --> 00:16:21.670
  • But she's a pretty big lady.
  • 00:16:21.670 --> 00:16:24.039
  • You know what size sandal she wears?
  • 00:16:24.039 --> 00:16:26.442
  • - what we can estimate is that she has
  • 00:16:26.442 --> 00:16:28.377
  • A size 659 sandal.
  • 00:16:28.377 --> 00:16:31.080
  • - wow, 659.
  • 00:16:31.080 --> 00:16:35.884
  • After being greeted by the statue of liberty in
  • 00:16:36.885 --> 00:16:38.821
  • The new york harbor, immigrants would travel
  • 00:16:38.821 --> 00:16:40.989
  • To ellis island to be processed
  • 00:16:40.989 --> 00:16:43.058
  • Into the united states.
  • 00:16:43.058 --> 00:16:44.526
  • - i'm annie moore, a teenager from
  • 00:16:44.526 --> 00:16:46.428
  • County cork ireland.
  • 00:16:46.428 --> 00:16:48.130
  • I was the first immigrant to set foot on
  • 00:16:48.130 --> 00:16:50.365
  • Ellis island, new year's day 1892.
  • 00:16:50.365 --> 00:16:53.569
  • - from 1892 to 1954, ellis island processed more
  • 00:16:53.569 --> 00:16:57.840
  • Than 12 million immigrants in the united states.
  • 00:16:57.840 --> 00:17:01.343
  • Even today, tens of millions of americans can
  • 00:17:01.343 --> 00:17:03.946
  • Trace their family roots to this place.
  • 00:17:03.946 --> 00:17:09.618
  • Many immigrants came here to ellis island with
  • 00:17:09.718 --> 00:17:11.520
  • Their entire lives packed on their backs.
  • 00:17:11.520 --> 00:17:14.656
  • Hopefully they didn't have a limit for checked baggage.
  • 00:17:14.656 --> 00:17:17.459
  • Many who came here were escaping religious,
  • 00:17:17.459 --> 00:17:20.796
  • Racial, or political persecution.
  • 00:17:20.796 --> 00:17:23.065
  • Some were just seeking better job opportunities.
  • 00:17:23.065 --> 00:17:25.434
  • Or in the case of famine, some just needed to go
  • 00:17:25.434 --> 00:17:27.703
  • Someplace where they could get more to eat.
  • 00:17:27.703 --> 00:17:30.372
  • Many greek and italian laborers were some fooled
  • 00:17:30.372 --> 00:17:33.242
  • Here by contract labor offered by these
  • 00:17:33.242 --> 00:17:36.111
  • Guys called padrones.
  • 00:17:36.111 --> 00:17:38.247
  • But these jobs could be in hazardous conditions
  • 00:17:38.247 --> 00:17:40.415
  • With very low pay, lowered even further once the
  • 00:17:40.415 --> 00:17:43.852
  • Padrones got their cut.
  • 00:17:43.852 --> 00:17:46.188
  • But for many immigrants,
  • 00:17:46.188 --> 00:17:47.489
  • It was an offer they couldn't refuse.
  • 00:17:47.489 --> 00:17:50.692
  • - they asked me
  • 00:17:50.692 --> 00:17:52.861
  • If i was a communist.
  • 00:17:52.861 --> 00:17:55.297
  • I said i'm not a communist, i'm italian.
  • 00:17:55.297 --> 00:18:00.736
  • - soon it was clear that certain industries
  • 00:18:00.736 --> 00:18:02.938
  • Attracted certain nationalities.
  • 00:18:02.938 --> 00:18:04.940
  • Hungarians, poles, slavics, bohemians and italians
  • 00:18:04.940 --> 00:18:08.443
  • Flocked to the coal mines or the steel mills.
  • 00:18:08.443 --> 00:18:11.413
  • The greeks preferred the textile mills.
  • 00:18:11.413 --> 00:18:13.682
  • Russian and polish jews worked the needle trades
  • 00:18:13.682 --> 00:18:16.051
  • Or push cart markets of new york.
  • 00:18:16.051 --> 00:18:18.187
  • Railroad companies advertised free or cheap farmland,
  • 00:18:18.187 --> 00:18:21.356
  • Sending pamphlets overseas to lure farm workers.
  • 00:18:21.356 --> 00:18:24.593
  • But the vast majority of immigrants crowded into
  • 00:18:24.593 --> 00:18:26.995
  • The cities which held the biggest promise
  • 00:18:26.995 --> 00:18:29.097
  • Of a shiny new life.
  • 00:18:29.097 --> 00:18:31.166
  • - america wasn't exactly what i expected.
  • 00:18:31.166 --> 00:18:34.436
  • I heard the streets were paved with gold.
  • 00:18:34.436 --> 00:18:37.472
  • But when i got here,
  • 00:18:37.472 --> 00:18:39.708
  • I found out three things...
  • 00:18:39.708 --> 00:18:42.211
  • First, the streets weren't paved with gold.
  • 00:18:42.211 --> 00:18:45.013
  • Second, the streets weren't paved at all.
  • 00:18:45.013 --> 00:18:48.150
  • And third, i was expected to pave them.
  • 00:18:48.150 --> 00:18:52.621
  • What kind of schlemiel will have an old man
  • 00:18:52.621 --> 00:18:55.090
  • Like me pave the street?
  • 00:18:55.090 --> 00:18:57.226
  • I ask you who's the mashugana now?
  • 00:18:57.226 --> 00:19:02.831
  • - if these bags could talk, huh?
  • 00:19:03.599 --> 00:19:05.367
  • They'd probably say something like, hey cody,
  • 00:19:05.367 --> 00:19:08.270
  • Why does it take so long to immigrate to
  • 00:19:08.270 --> 00:19:09.738
  • The united states?
  • 00:19:09.738 --> 00:19:11.340
  • I'd probably say something like, well,
  • 00:19:11.340 --> 00:19:13.475
  • It's because if you're more than a bag,
  • 00:19:13.475 --> 00:19:15.510
  • It's because there was a of steps.
  • 00:19:15.510 --> 00:19:18.747
  • After a long and rocky voyage at sea,
  • 00:19:18.747 --> 00:19:21.016
  • Immigrants arrived at ellis island to be herded
  • 00:19:21.016 --> 00:19:23.385
  • Through a barn like structure into long lines.
  • 00:19:23.385 --> 00:19:26.888
  • Then they were tagged.
  • 00:19:26.888 --> 00:19:28.657
  • These tags had travel information entries from
  • 00:19:28.657 --> 00:19:31.326
  • Ship's logs, their netflix password,
  • 00:19:31.326 --> 00:19:33.795
  • You know, the usual stuff.
  • 00:19:33.795 --> 00:19:35.297
  • Then they got in a new line where a government
  • 00:19:35.297 --> 00:19:37.466
  • Inspector asked them a list of 29 probing
  • 00:19:37.466 --> 00:19:40.369
  • Questions such as, have you any money,
  • 00:19:40.369 --> 00:19:44.006
  • Relatives or a job in the united states?
  • 00:19:44.006 --> 00:19:46.074
  • Are you a polygamist, an anarchist?
  • 00:19:46.074 --> 00:19:49.111
  • Do you prefer crunchy or smooth peanut butter?
  • 00:19:49.111 --> 00:19:51.780
  • Important stuff.
  • 00:19:51.780 --> 00:19:53.248
  • And then they waited in another long line for a
  • 00:19:53.248 --> 00:19:56.251
  • Medical inspection.
  • 00:19:56.251 --> 00:19:57.519
  • Here, doctors and nurses would poke and prod you
  • 00:19:57.519 --> 00:19:59.354
  • Looking for any signs of disease or handicap to
  • 00:19:59.354 --> 00:20:01.957
  • Determine if you were fit for entry into
  • 00:20:01.957 --> 00:20:04.092
  • The united states.
  • 00:20:04.092 --> 00:20:05.761
  • - wiggle your toes. say, ah.
  • 00:20:05.761 --> 00:20:08.096
  • Sorry, this stethoscope will probably be pretty cold.
  • 00:20:08.096 --> 00:20:11.800
  • - good news is only 2% of people were turned away.
  • 00:20:11.800 --> 00:20:16.038
  • An average of 1900 people passed through this
  • 00:20:16.038 --> 00:20:19.074
  • Process, checked in at these desks and gave
  • 00:20:19.074 --> 00:20:21.643
  • Their names every day.
  • 00:20:21.643 --> 00:20:24.246
  • If they did not receive a stamp of approval,
  • 00:20:24.246 --> 00:20:26.481
  • Perhaps because they were criminals, anarchists,
  • 00:20:26.481 --> 00:20:29.084
  • Or disease carriers, then they were sent back to
  • 00:20:29.084 --> 00:20:31.386
  • Their place of origin.
  • 00:20:31.386 --> 00:20:32.854
  • Most of the time, this all only took a few
  • 00:20:32.854 --> 00:20:34.856
  • Hours, but some people could be detained
  • 00:20:34.856 --> 00:20:37.059
  • For days or weeks.
  • 00:20:37.059 --> 00:20:39.761
  • - i'm dying.
  • 00:20:39.761 --> 00:20:40.896
  • I've been waiting for over 300 days.
  • 00:20:40.896 --> 00:20:44.132
  • - when they finally made it through,
  • 00:20:44.132 --> 00:20:45.400
  • It was off to make their way in new york city.
  • 00:20:45.400 --> 00:20:47.803
  • Or they could hop on a train or a barge
  • 00:20:47.803 --> 00:20:49.771
  • In new jersey.
  • 00:20:49.771 --> 00:20:51.239
  • They could find themselves all the way
  • 00:20:51.239 --> 00:20:52.708
  • Across the country.
  • 00:20:52.708 --> 00:20:57.279
  • The greatest surge of immigration took place in
  • 00:20:58.313 --> 00:21:00.349
  • The progressive era from 1896 to 1916.
  • 00:21:00.349 --> 00:21:04.619
  • With millions of new immigrants suddenly
  • 00:21:04.619 --> 00:21:07.122
  • Arriving, resources to help out were in short supply.
  • 00:21:07.122 --> 00:21:10.425
  • Many of these people were starting their lives
  • 00:21:10.425 --> 00:21:11.893
  • Over from scratch.
  • 00:21:11.893 --> 00:21:13.829
  • They needed jobs, places to live.
  • 00:21:13.829 --> 00:21:17.032
  • Some needed to learn entirely new languages.
  • 00:21:17.032 --> 00:21:22.504
  • For newcomers arriving without family,
  • 00:21:22.504 --> 00:21:24.373
  • They found comfort in neighborhoods,
  • 00:21:24.373 --> 00:21:26.641
  • Mostly populated by their fellow countrymen.
  • 00:21:26.641 --> 00:21:29.177
  • Here they could talk in their native tongue,
  • 00:21:29.177 --> 00:21:31.580
  • Practice their religion, and enjoy cultural
  • 00:21:31.580 --> 00:21:34.249
  • Celebrations that reminded them of home.
  • 00:21:34.249 --> 00:21:36.785
  • But a new life in a new country wasn't easy.
  • 00:21:36.785 --> 00:21:40.222
  • So who could help them get started?
  • 00:21:40.222 --> 00:21:42.324
  • Believe it or not, the best resource for the
  • 00:21:42.324 --> 00:21:44.526
  • Immigrant was the church.
  • 00:21:44.526 --> 00:21:47.796
  • Every christian denomination came
  • 00:21:47.796 --> 00:21:49.498
  • Together to care for these immigrant families.
  • 00:21:49.498 --> 00:21:52.200
  • If you needed a job,
  • 00:21:52.200 --> 00:21:53.802
  • The church was a great place to start.
  • 00:21:53.802 --> 00:21:56.405
  • They were the established hubs of their communities.
  • 00:21:56.405 --> 00:21:59.241
  • In any barrio or neighborhood,
  • 00:21:59.241 --> 00:22:01.576
  • Those who ministered to the needs of its people
  • 00:22:01.576 --> 00:22:04.312
  • Gained their trust and confidence.
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  • In fact, most local churches and pastors were
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  • On first name basis with the nearby shop owners.
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  • Getting a job recommendation from a
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  • Place of worship was way safer and more reliable
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  • For the immigrant and the employer alike.
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  • If someone needed a place to live,
  • 00:22:21.730 --> 00:22:23.398
  • The church already knew someone in their own
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  • Congregation that could provide a
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  • Bed and room for rent.
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  • If you needed supplies or food,
  • 00:22:29.070 --> 00:22:31.740
  • The church food banks were already established.
  • 00:22:31.740 --> 00:22:34.409
  • They could provide a number of needs,
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  • No questions asked.
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  • No matter the denomination.
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  • The church showed a united front as a landing
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  • Pad for the immigrants that found themselves
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  • At square one.
  • 00:22:45.620 --> 00:22:48.557
  • So many of our great minds immigrated here.
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  • Albert einstein, irving berlin, bob hope,
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  • Chef boyardee. can you imagine a life
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  • Without spaghettios? because i can't.
  • 00:22:57.532 --> 00:22:59.601
  • And when they got here, lady liberty was
  • 00:22:59.601 --> 00:23:01.937
  • Waiting for 'em.
  • 00:23:01.937 --> 00:23:03.505
  • It seems america had found her american idol.
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  • From queen amerique to the rebellious daughter,
  • 00:23:07.576 --> 00:23:09.845
  • Lady columbia, and ultimately lady liberty.
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  • Millions around the world now look to the
  • 00:23:13.482 --> 00:23:15.817
  • Statue of liberty as a representation of
  • 00:23:15.817 --> 00:23:19.421
  • Freedom, hope, and opportunity.
  • 00:23:19.421 --> 00:23:22.757
  • Even as immigration has become a hot button issue
  • 00:23:22.757 --> 00:23:25.060
  • Today, the us still takes in over half of the
  • 00:23:25.060 --> 00:23:28.663
  • World's immigrants.
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  • Why?
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  • What makes us different than other nations?
  • 00:23:31.967 --> 00:23:35.003
  • It's because we still believe in our chief
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  • Export, the american dream.
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  • After the discovery of the new world,
  • 00:23:40.909 --> 00:23:42.911
  • We came to these shores hoping to find gold.
  • 00:23:42.911 --> 00:23:45.847
  • But by the turn of a century, immigrants
  • 00:23:45.847 --> 00:23:47.782
  • Came in search of a new kind of gold: opportunity,
  • 00:23:47.782 --> 00:23:52.020
  • Freedom, the chance to build from nothing.
  • 00:23:52.020 --> 00:23:54.956
  • - well, i was still hoping for some real gold.
  • 00:23:54.956 --> 00:23:58.460
  • - dad gummit jebidiah,
  • 00:23:58.460 --> 00:23:59.694
  • Ain't no real gold! ain't real.
  • 00:23:59.694 --> 00:24:01.796
  • None of it's real. look, my beard's not real.
  • 00:24:01.796 --> 00:24:03.732
  • This stream is not real. it's just holding it.
  • 00:24:03.732 --> 00:24:06.067
  • Alright, this is all just a metaphor
  • 00:24:06.067 --> 00:24:08.003
  • For the american dream.
  • 00:24:08.003 --> 00:24:10.739
  • - that dream still spurs on in millions of second,
  • 00:24:10.739 --> 00:24:14.109
  • Third, and fourth generation immigrants.
  • 00:24:14.109 --> 00:24:16.878
  • But some in our younger generation may describe
  • 00:24:16.878 --> 00:24:19.247
  • America as hateful, divided, even racist.
  • 00:24:19.247 --> 00:24:23.852
  • Yet more people around the world would rather be
  • 00:24:23.852 --> 00:24:26.721
  • Here than anywhere else.
  • 00:24:26.721 --> 00:24:29.991
  • How do we welcome them in safely,
  • 00:24:29.991 --> 00:24:31.893
  • Legally keeping freedoms intact?
  • 00:24:31.893 --> 00:24:34.429
  • Some say a bridge, some say a wall,
  • 00:24:34.429 --> 00:24:37.732
  • Some say it will take massive reform.
  • 00:24:37.732 --> 00:24:40.268
  • But there's one thing we should all agree on.
  • 00:24:40.268 --> 00:24:44.039
  • Lady liberty should always stand in the harbor.
  • 00:24:44.039 --> 00:24:46.608
  • Always welcome the outsider.
  • 00:24:46.608 --> 00:24:48.343
  • Always take in the huddled masses
  • 00:24:48.343 --> 00:24:50.545
  • Yearning for something more.
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  • We'll see you next time.
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