yes Irish immigrants went to Ellis island in 1845-1852 because a famine started in Ireland because of the blight witch made the potatoes all rotten
They trough Ellis Island... Angel Island is in California and Ellis is in New York :)
Ellis Island was open primarily to German and Irish immigrants in 1892
New York / Ellis Island
In the 1700s, immigrants were coming from all over the world. The second and third waves of Irish immigrants came after 1717. The potato famine in Ireland was making them want to come. Many immigrants thought that they would strike it rich in this new land. Ellis Island and Angel Island dealt with immigrants. Immigrants were inspected, but it was rare for one not to be accepted. If an immigrant was sick, they were sent to the Ellis Island hospital at Ellis Island. It was rare for one of the immigrants to get sent home. Angel Island was used mainly by Asians and Ellis Island by Europeans. Ellis Island was closed in 1954. It was expensive to maintain. Today, Ellis Island is a tourist sight. From Ellis Island, the Statue of Liberty can be seen. The Statue of Liberty was a significant sight for the immigrants crossing over to the U.S. Many of them cried on the boats. The boats treated the immigrants as cargo, and the immigrants were usually steerage. Depending on where the immigrants were traveling from, the journeys were long. Many people got sick and conditions were terrible.
the top three countries that immigrants came to Ellis island from were Ireland Italy and Germany.
They trough Ellis Island... Angel Island is in California and Ellis is in New York :)
Ellis Island was open primarily to German and Irish immigrants in 1892
New York / Ellis Island
In the 1700s, immigrants were coming from all over the world. The second and third waves of Irish immigrants came after 1717. The potato famine in Ireland was making them want to come. Many immigrants thought that they would strike it rich in this new land. Ellis Island and Angel Island dealt with immigrants. Immigrants were inspected, but it was rare for one not to be accepted. If an immigrant was sick, they were sent to the Ellis Island hospital at Ellis Island. It was rare for one of the immigrants to get sent home. Angel Island was used mainly by Asians and Ellis Island by Europeans. Ellis Island was closed in 1954. It was expensive to maintain. Today, Ellis Island is a tourist sight. From Ellis Island, the Statue of Liberty can be seen. The Statue of Liberty was a significant sight for the immigrants crossing over to the U.S. Many of them cried on the boats. The boats treated the immigrants as cargo, and the immigrants were usually steerage. Depending on where the immigrants were traveling from, the journeys were long. Many people got sick and conditions were terrible.
the top three countries that immigrants came to Ellis island from were Ireland Italy and Germany.
The inspectors at Ellis Island know how to speak at least 6 languages so there is always backup when the immigrants don't speak english.
In the majority there were citizens from Europe with the Irish, Italians and Germans to lead the list of the immigrants of the times.
The immigrants who landed at Ellis Island near New York were processed much quicker than immigrants who landed at Angel Island near San Francisco. Angel Island immigrants were held to higher standards than those of Ellis Island.
All immigrants who wanted to go NYC had to stop at Ellis Island, to make sure they were okay to come into the USA. They were not criminals, they did not carry disease, they met immigration quotas from a certain country. All the immigrants who wanted to go to NYC had to go to Ellis Island first. This was when boat travel across the Atlantic ocean brought people to NYC.
The immigrants that passed through Ellis island moved to a variety of places, generally based on their ethnicity. In general, the Irish immigrants went to Boston or New York, German immigrants moved to the Midwest, and English immigrants stayed on the east coast. However, there are always exceptions.
Annie Moore... 15 years old from County Cork...came through Ellis Island and was recorded as the first immigrant to pass through Ellis Island. THere had been other immigrants but Annie was the first recorded... Read more about Annie in the related links.
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