Burk Edwards
Mr. Kriner
Us History
19 October 2017
Ellis Island Intro
Located in the upper New York Bay was the border or gateway for immigrants to come to the United States, in total over 12 million immigrants used Ellis island to get to the United States.
Ellis Island was used as a inspection center for immigrants for over 60 years. The process they used to get immigrants into the United States was asking basic questions like money on them, name and occupation. There was also a medical procedure to get by Ellis Island, Ellis Island closed its immigration process in 1954.
Early History
In the early history of Ellis Island, much of the upper New York Bay, which consisted of oyster banks,
The Oyster beds on the islands lasted for almost 3 centuries, but nevertheless the railyard company Lehigh Valley Railroad and The Central Railroad of New Jersey destroyed the oyster beds.
In the 1770s Samuel Ellis became the private owner of Ellis Island, but not too much later in 1794, the state of New York leased Ellis island, during the time 1794-1890, there was not much going on in Ellis island, but it still played a role in the United States military as a federal arsenal and other military stations. As the war ended Ellis Island stayed a military post for 80 years before it would be picked by the United States to be a federal immigration station.
Forming the island
Before Ellis Island’s immigration station opened, the immigrants trying to get into the United states had to go through the New York State officials at the Castle Garden station for
The medical inspection took place in the Great hall on Ellis Island, in the great hall, they would give brief physicals, for basic physical alignments. By 1916 it was said that the doctors on ellis island could tell if an immigrant had basic diseases just by looking at them.
The immigrants were also giving a 29 question test, which included their name, amount of money with them and their job or occupation. It was very important for the United states to know their money count because they needed to know if they could support themselves and not have arise in the homeless population, so immigrants were required to have anywhere from 18 and 25 dollars.
If an immigrant had a visible health issue, they would be put in the medical center on ellis island, they would either die, get better, or get sent back to their home country from there. Ellis Island got the nickname heartbreak island from those who got sent back to their home country, which was only 2% of immigrants who attempted to get through Ellis
During Cedar Point’s very early history, Native Americans occupied the land. This included the Eries, followed by the Iroquois, who violently over took the Eries and the land, and lastly the Wyandots. Cedar Point could be first seen on an early map by 1826. A family named Winthrops owned the land by then, but they did not use it
The 18th Century was a time where most immigrants were of Irish, British, and German descent. From the 1890’s, through the next couple decade, Italians, and Jews would be the cause a new wave of immigration. Between 1900 and 1915, 3 million immigrants would take the journey, and travel to America. They would come through the famed “Ellis
Lemak, Jennifer A. "Albany, New York and the Great Migration" The Free Library 01 January
In general we can say that the Dutch had “some” influence when New Amsterdam was grounded. Later the Dutch came to the conclusion that the reason we established the outpost New Amsterdam, to trade and earn money, was not what we expected of it. More and more people sailed to New Amsterdam and never came back. They settled and find their way into this big and endless country. Later the Dutch lost New Amsterdam to the English and they give it his new name “New York”. The bond with the Dutch and the America of today is still very good. In these day’s there is still some sort of understanding between the two countries, is this a leftover from history?
The territory finally became a state in 1959, just ahead of Hawaii. Now, Hawaii is an archipelago, a chain of islands, located in the Central Pacific. Unlike Alaska, annexing Hawaii was due to United States imperialism. Around the middle 1800s, American began to migrate to the islands of Hawaii to start businesses, especially with sugarcane and pineapple. At that time, the islands were ruled by Queen Liliuokalani in a monarchy.
Immigrants were held for long periods of time before they could get into America. People who had to send here were Steerages, a lower class, they had been “named” by the medical exams “E” for eye trouble, “K” for hernia, “L” for lameness, “X for mental defects, “H” for heart disease, Mary Gordon, 1987. In the other hand, Angel Island and Ellis Island had many differences between them. Ellis Island was in the East coast, Upper New York Bay. In additional, Ellis Island was a castle garden, and it was used for immigrants from Europe. “Immigrants could pass through Ellis Island in mere hours, though for some the process took days”, May Gordon, 1987. The immigrants who passed Ellis Island had been treated by terrible things such as “stolen their names and chalked their weaknesses in public on their clothing” Marry Gordon, 1987. Immigrants who had to go to the Angel Island was treated worse. They would be separated men from women and children at the moment they had arrived. Then they had to do the medical exams which required undressing in front of strangers. If they fail the test for various diseases they would be deported immediately. After all of the examinations, the immigrants did not pass through yet, they would wait in a detention dormitory and a bunk until the interrogation process, and this process took a few days to months. In conclusion, I rather to live in Ellis Island and
In the early 16th century immigrants from England fled their country in search of a better life. They fled their homelands for many reasons; poverty, religious intolerance and persecution, others in search of an adventure or for a new start. They packed up their families and possessions some even brought their servants, embarking on a perilous journey across the Atlantic Ocean and reached the land known today as America. The first of the immigrants landed in two regions; the Massachusetts bay and the Chesapeake Bay. Both these regions would soon be colonies known as Massachusetts and Virginia, both major colonies. Throughout the years more and more people started to flee their homelands in Europe and come to America.
The Native Americans lived there, but also made it a sanction place if someone needed punishment. “Native Americans believed the island was to be inhabited by evil spirits.”(The Ghost Of Alcatraz). They believed this so much they sent people there for severe punishment (The Ghost Of Alcatraz). The punishment had been that their tribe would exile them to this island to live there away from anyone else for the rest of their life. The Native Americans protested to have the land in many ways, and kept coming back refusing to accept defeat. “A fire tore across the island and destroyed several of Alcatraz’s historic buildings. The Indians claimed the blaze was an accident or perhaps even the work of outside provocateurs.” (Andrews). In the end Alcatraz is known to be a historical place for people to now visit. There will always be a tie to the Native
This test discriminated against people from poorer countries such as Europe and Asia as they would not be able o afford to learn English in their own country. But after a while this test began to fail as immigrates relatives that had already got in to America who had taken the literacy test told them what the test said in their language so they could then learn it in English. So in 1921 the immigration quota act was introduced which limited the number of immigrates allowed into the USA to 357,000 each year. It also stated that the number of people emigrating from any country should not exceed 3% of the number from that country already living in America. This quota system also worked in favour of people from Western and Northern Europe as they made up a large percentage of the immigrates in 1910.
...on is low due to agricultural runoff, disease and over harvesting. However there is still a future for the bays oysters, people have come together and made a plan to save The Chesapeake Bay. With time the bay will be restored to what it once was.
Immigrants came to American in search of freedom and opportunity. They mostly came by steamship. Examinations and vaccinations of the immigrants needed to be done. Both immigrants and their baggage had to be disinfected before they could leave Ellis Island.
Roark, James L. et al., eds. The American Promise: A Compact, Vol. I: To 1877. 3rd edition. Boston and New York: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2007.
The original station, Castle Garden at the Battery in lower Manhattan, could not handle all of the immigrants coming in. To have room for the immigrants, the island grew to 3.3 acres. In the next two years, Ellis was enlarged to fourteen acres in order to hold all of the immigrants and support buildings. By January 1, 1892, Ellis's first immigration station, a two story high structure of Georgia pine, was open ready for business
Lee, Erika, and Judy Yung. Angel Island Immigrant Gateway to America. New York : Oxford University Press, 2012. Print.
The United States experienced major waves of immigration during the colonial era, the first part of the 19th century and from the 1880s to 1920. Many people immigrated to America for