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ellis island is a place where imagrants come to the usa.
At the Ellis Island Immigration Station on 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.
When immigrants came into the U.S. they had to enter through ellis island or angel island because if the immigrants tried to just run off they would have nowhere else to go
They would go to Ellis Island outside of New York.
Ellis Island was the main federal Immigration station for the United States. Generally, all groups of immigrants arriving by boat would have been processed here in the 1880s.
Ellis Island of New York City, New York
If your asking this then you must have not payed attention to history class. OF COURSE Ellis Island was a point of entry. Immigrants that landed by ship about 90% of the time went here, well of course you would have to be coming to New York of course because this is were it is located!
Since Ellis Island was a small community the people who worked there were everything from cleaning staff to doctors/nurses. People who worked for the federal government as secretaries and immigration officers would also work there. The new arrivals had to be processed so anyone that was involved in that would be found at Ellis Island.
The US treated Europeans better than Asians. Ellis Island only rejected about 3% of the European immigrants. Angel Island rejected about 18% of the Chinese and Japanese immigrants. People were afraid that Asians would take jobs from white men.
It started being prepared as the centre through which immigrants would come -Castle Garden would no longer be the entry point.
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.