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.
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.
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.
The immigrants slept on the ship in Ellis Island.
Immigrants got to Ellis island by boat
The immigrants who landed at Ellis Island near New York were processed much quicker than immigrants who landed at Angel Island near San Francisco. Angel Island immigrants were held to higher standards than those of Ellis Island.
Because certain people were not allowed in based on their background. Also, they wanted to be more American when they came.
All immigrants who wanted to go NYC had to stop at Ellis Island, to make sure they were okay to come into the USA. They were not criminals, they did not carry disease, they met immigration quotas from a certain country. All the immigrants who wanted to go to NYC had to go to Ellis Island first. This was when boat travel across the Atlantic ocean brought people to NYC.
Most of the immigrants processed at the Angel Island station in San Francisco Bay were Chinese.
Immigrants
Ellis island
Study Island: "Old" immigrants were from Western Europe, and "new" immigrants were from eastern and southern Europe.
Ellis island