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Q: What were the boats called that immigrentds took to Ellis island?
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How did the immigrant an foreigners get to Ellis island?

boats


How were the poor treated when they arrived at Ellis Island?

horrible to where they where jumping off the boats.


What is the boats name from Italy to Ellis Island?

There were hundreds of different ships that travelled from Italy to Ellis Island. You would have to search the records to identify a specific ship.


How long did the trip to Ellis Island for the immigrants take on the boats?

10-14 days


How can I tour the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island in New York?

I assume you are asking about how to go to Lady Liberty and Ellis Island. There are tours you can buy at Battery Park and board the boats going to both sites.


What mode of transportation did immigrants use to arrive at Ellis Island?

They used water transportation or in other words boats.


What did the Ellis island smell like?

Immigrants sometimes commented that the smell of the docks Ellis Island was refreshing after being confined in the unsanitary conditions on the boats. The area around the dock smelled of fresh salt air.


What was new York like in the 1700s?

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.


How much did it cost to immigrate to Ellis Island?

At the time when most people were immigrating to America - particularly Ellis Island - the cost of travel was a lot. This is mostly down to the cost of power and fuel in the boats used to ship immigrants to this region of America. £10 was the average cost to immigrate.


What do you call a small group of small boats used to transport medical patients from an island to a mainland?

A group of boats is usually referred to as a convoy. If they are a medical group of boats it is normally called a Medical Convoy.


Where do you get boats on skulduggery island on Poptropica?

You can buy new boats on the poptropica "China" island, Dragon Cove. It's to the North-West of the main island.


Why is statue of liberty above water?

its on Ellis island and the parts were brought in on barges... Google the rest <><><> Ellis Island is a different Island. The Statue is on Liberty island- formerly known as Bedloe Island. The Statue has a bolted together iron frame, and copper sheets attached to the frame. It was shipped to the US in pieces, and assembled here.