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By 1900, the advanced steamships could cross the Atlantic Ocean in just one week. This brief journey, however, could be difficult, especially for those who could not afford cabins. Most immigrants traveled in steerage, a large open area beneath the ship's deck. Steerage offered limited toilet facilities, no privacy, and poor food,.
Ellis Island
The late 1800s saw many people moving from one country to another. Immigrants from around the world were fleeing shortages of jobs and land, crop failures, famine, and rising taxes. Some were escaping religious and political persecution. The United States received a huge portion of these people.. These immigrants came to America because it offered a chance to improve their lives.
Remember, remember always, that all of us... are descended from immigrants and revolutionists. -President Franklin D. Roosevelt
Ellis Island Interactive Tour http://teacher.scholastic.com/ ACTIVITIES/IMMIGRATION/ tour/stop1.htm Search Ellis Island for your ancestors at ellisisland.org
In 1892 the federal government required all new immigrants to undergo a physical examination. Those that were found to have a contagious disease such as tuberculosis faced quarantine. They could even be deported. After their physicals, immigrants showed their documents to officials and then collected their baggage. If they had the address of friends or relatives, they headed off to find them..
America is not merely a nation but a nation of nations. -Lyndon B. Johnson
Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore, send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me: I lift my lamp beside the golden door. - Emma Larzarus
