A lot of immigrants came in via Canada or Galveston, TX.
they needed to find a job
The Ellis Island web site would be the place to go. They have a fully searchable listing of the people that went through there.
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.
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Ellis Island is located in New York Harbor.
They usually gathered in groups near Ellis Island in big cities. It's usually where they could find the most work. Italians =]
Without Ellis island, the United States would certainly not be the country it is today, as tens of millions of emigrants arrived in the United States at the end of the 19th century and at the very beginning of the 20th century (1892-1924). These emigrants paved the way for what the country is today.
Ellis Island in New York was the main immigration point in the USA for much of the last Century. It closed in 1954, and was re-opened as a museum in 1990. Due to the effects of Hurricane Sandy in October 2012, Ellis Island Immigration Museum has been closed indefinitely.
Annie Moore was the first immigrant to enter through Ellis Island. She came to America with her two children to escape the potato famine and to find work.
etween 1910 and 1940, there were as many as 175,000 Chinese immigrants detained and processed at Angel Island, San Francisco Bay, California. Unlike Ellis Island in New York's harbor, Angel Island is a visible reminder of a shameful period in U.S. immigration history.
its cool