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How do immigrants get to America today?
boats, planes, and ships
What do illegal immigrants on boats eat or drink?
food or water
Where did the immigrants sleep on the ship?
in bunks, or where ever there was room
How long did the trip to Ellis Island for the immigrants take on the boats?
10-14 days
Where did immigrants sleep on the ships when coming to American colonies?
Immigrants slept on bunks that were stacked 3 high.
What is steerage and what is it like?
Tiny compartments where immigrants or 3rd class people stayed in boats/ships.
Why do illegal immigrants take boats or airplanes?
so when they get to the other side they can use the wood and stuff to build a house.
What mode of transportation did immigrants use to arrive at Ellis Island?
They used water transportation or in other words boats.
What kind of ships were used for immigrants?
They traveles on cramped and diseaded boats that were expensive and most people died not seeing america.
How did early immigrants get to America?
Early immigrants got here on big steel boats, with sometimes a combined total of 20,000 would be Americans on board. Immigrants from Europe came in through Ellis Island while people from Asia came to America through Angel Island.
Which mode of transportation could immigrants use to reach the US?
They used water transportation or in other words boats.
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.
