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"The American Family Immigration History Center® opened which allows visitors to the Center and its website www.ellisisland.org to explore the extraordinary collection of records of the more than 25 million passengers and members of ships' crews who entered the United States through Ellis Island and the Port of New York between 1892 and 1924. The online database has had twelve billion hits since it was launched." Taken from the Ellis Island website.

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More than 20 million immigrants passed through Ellis Island between 1892 and 1954.

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there was so many in the us but in Ellis iland there was 12,099,923

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What island have immigrants traditionally passed through?

Ellis island


What group of immigrants passed through Angel Island?

Chinese


How long did immigrants remain in angel island?

There isn't an exact number of people that passed through the Angel Islands. They passed through the Ellis Islands too, and were mostly Chinese.


How many immigrants came to the USA through Ellis Island from 1892 through 1954?

20 Million immigrants passed through Ellis Island before its closing in 1954


How did the practices at angel island reveal a bias certain immigrants?

The practices at Angel Island reveal a bias against certain immigrants because Chinese Immigrants were detained for weeks or months in prison-like facilities while awaiting a ruling on whether or not they could stay. Other immigrants passed through Angel Island fairly quickly.


How did practices at Angel Island Reveal a Bias Against Certain Immigrants?

The practices at Angel Island reveal a bias against certain immigrants because Chinese Immigrants were detained for weeks or months in prison-like facilities while awaiting a ruling on whether or not they could stay. Other immigrants passed through Angel Island fairly quickly.


How did the practices at Angel Island reveal a bias against certain immigrants?

The practices at Angel Island reveal a bias against certain immigrants because Chinese Immigrants were detained for weeks or months in prison-like facilities while awaiting a ruling on whether or not they could stay. Other immigrants passed through Angel Island fairly quickly.


How many people came through Ellis island in the first 50 years?

Over 12 million immigrants passed through Ellis Island between 1892 and 1924, during its first 50 years of operation as an immigration station.


Why Ellis Island is important?

Ellis Island is important as people from round the world, their ancestors will have passed through there to get to America. That is what has made America so culturally diverse today. Millions of immigrants passed through Ellis Island. A fire on Ellis Island burnt down records of immigrants passing through, no copies were made of these so tracing ancestors can be a difficulty. (I visited the Ellis Island Museum but I still do not fully understand so don't take all my words! :P)


Did any African immigrants come through Ellis Island?

all immigrants from Europe, Africa or parts of the middle ast came through Ellis island. so.... pretty much anyone who was white. (becasue everyone else came through from china and japan)


Where did the immigrants have to go to enter New York City?

From to 1892 to 1954, all immigrants to the United States arriving on its East Coast had to pass through the Immigration Station on New York City's Ellis Island, before entering New York City and the rest of the country.Immigrants arriving on the West Coast of the U.S. passed through Angel Island.


Why did Europe immigrants leave Europe to go to Ellis island?

Well, it wasn't as if they wanted to Ellis Island. They wanted to the US, because they thought they could find better lives for themselves there. And to get to the US, all immigration traffic passed through Ellis Island.