Trouble's Immigrants Faced By Ellis Island?

From it’s opening in 1892 to it’s closing in 1954 more than 12 million people passed through Ellis Island on their way to finding a new and better life. In the 1630s, Michael Paauw purchases the island and renames it Oyster Island because of the shellfish on the beach. Then during the 1700s, it is known as Gibbet Island for its gallows tree used to hang men charged with piracy. During the Revolutionary War Samuel Ellis purchases the island, and builds a restaurant on it for the local fisherman. After Samuel Ellis dies the State of New York buys the island so it can be used to build military fortifications and store ammunition. In 1890, $75,000 is used for construction of the first federal immigration station on Ellis Island. the island’s size

This is a creative essay on Ellis Island, describing life as an immigrant who went to Ellis Island through first-person. All facts and dates are historically correct.

Immigrants needed money to come to America. Sometimes they would get their money from 'loan sharks'. Loan sharks are unlicensed lenders who will lend you money when no one else will. They often target unemployed people, immigrants, or lone parents. The loan sharks would lend the immigrants money and they would recollect it along with a little profit from interest. Other times immigrants would get money from family already living here. Ellis Island could be heaven for one family, and hell for another. Many people were sent out, no matter what their age. Families were broken apart because some members would be sent back, and some were allowed to stay.

The life of living as a poor settler or an immigrant was a problem in the urban life. Most of the immigrants faced poverty that needs to be secured with food, shelter, healthcare, and money. For example, if there were no food for the immigrants to eat, they will starve to death. A shelter was one of the most important things they need because it keeps them securities from harm and it is a cozy place for them to sleep. Another source they need was health care because without medical attention most of them had the disease. The disease like cholera, yellow fever, and typhoid came from bad hygiene which was preventing bad sanitation. The health factor was

Traditionally immigrants are faced numerous challenges on a daily basis. America is known as the place where there is a chances to succeed, a place where you can be free. Numerous Immigrants came to America with the goal that they could have a more noteworthy plausibility at prevailing in life. Settlers went out on a limb a when coming to America, for some it worked out well however for others they had a troublesome time here. Regardless of the battles that the outsiders experienced, for example, emerging from others, being isolated from their families, and breaking their way of life, the settlers are as yet thankful to be in America since they were in preferable conditions over they were in their country.

It seems that the word Immigration has took on a new meaning as for it once meant. Immigration is the action of coming to live permanently in a foreign country. It has always been a hot topic in our society because of all the controversy behind it, About whose land is actually theirs. It all starts in 1620, when the mayflower for the first time in history touches american soil, And changes the way history would unfold and the very way we live today. They came from England, searching for vast freedom from a corrupt, indigenous society seeking freedom of religion and the thought, ironically searching for the American dream before it became a phrase. They would stumble across humble , spiritual, and land loving givers who would eventually train these new pilgrims on how to live off the good god living land. Things would soon take a turn for the worst when disputes over land came abroad, this ended in a bloody battle leaving the pilgrims victorious with their new land. But history is always prone to repetitiveness once the 1700's came.

Because of a fire in ...Many of those immigrants were dealing with diseases that could kill them and many caught them all from people on or off the Ellis Island was the major US Immigration hub in the late 1800's and the early 1900's. Between the years of 1892 and 1954 some 12 million were processed at Ellis Island . To many, Ellis Island represented the gateway to opportunity and a new and prosperous life by way of the American dream. However to the 25 that were turned away from Ellis Island and denied entrance into the U.S., Ellis Island represented cold shutting doors of hopelessness and failure. Those that were turned away from Ellis Island were few percentages wise, but 2% of 12million translates into more than 250,000 dreams

In addition, the living quarters were tiny, “One person receives a place of scarcely 2 feet width and 6 feet length in the bedstead, while many a ship carries four to six hundred souls” (Mittelberger, “On the Misfortune of Indentured Servants”). Over the span of the trip, settlers were overcome with disease, dying before they could reach their destination. Mothers who died were thrown overboard with their infants. An account by an indentured servant gives insight into their lives, it reads,“tied up and whipp’d to that Degree that you’d not serve an Animal, scarce any thing but Indian Corn and Salt to eat… almost naked no shoes nor stockings to wear.” Indentured servants were beaten if they were disobedient to their masters, were barely given anything to eat, and barely

The Long Way Home: an American journey from Ellis Island to the Great War is a book written by David Laskin. Laskin is an American writer who has graduated from elite schools like Harvard and Oxford. He has written 19 books in his lifetime that capture diverse categories starting from weather and gardens to American history. In this book, Laskin focuses his attention on the history of 12 immigrants in which he examines their experience in the United States. Laskin uses the story of these immigrants to show the struggle they went through in order to be citizens and lose their immigrant status. Laskin explains how they have assimilated into American culture by becoming U.S. soldiers and shows appreciation to the, “service of the foreign born-shines” (Laskin, 2010, p.313).

From the start of the 20th century until today, immigrants haven’t been treated as equal as natives, however that didn’t stop immigrants from entering the US. America received a lot of immigrants up to 20 million, mainly coming from Europe. The immigrants went through a variety of check ups in Ellis Island, which determines their fate of entering America or not. The check up revolved around health. Ellis Island had a high acceptance rate, which was “Approximately 80 percent successfully passed through in a matter of hours, but others could be detained for days or weeks” (Ellis Island). As well as 80 percent sounds amazing, it isn’t the best because lots who made it had to leave family behind who got rejected. Also the article stated that

It talked about how there was little space, and dirty conditions. According to the text I know that they had such little space to live in, they built another house so they didn’t live on the streets. After reading the text I know they had to live with rats in their airshafts and houses. Airshafts are little homes. According to the story I know that the immigrants had to live in dirty conditions and didn’t have much space because they had to live in small tenements. Tenements are apartments, but the immigrants lived in small tenements. After righting about the immigrants lives and how they lived, I am now going to conclude this essay.

In chapter six, “South, Central, and Eastern European Americans” talk about one of the largest immigration periods of immigrants from Europe (1880- 1920). Escaping inhumane condition, persecution of religious and political change in their native land, they sail to America where opportunities and the job growth were much better due to a rapid growth of industrialization. European immigrants came to America to better themselves; searching for their American dream, just like many other immigrants. Based on my own personal experience it really saddened me to learn how the immigrants who came from the south, central and east Europe suffer in their hope of a better life. I can relate this because my family has gone through a similar situation of survival and have faced discrimination base of our cultural and language differences.

“I had always hoped that this land might become a safe and agreeable asylum to the virtuous and persecuted part of mankind to whatever nation they might belong” this quote is by George Washington, but A Country is for all is another quote by Jorge Ramos. Everyone of any culture should be aloud in every country they want. There shouldn't be a law that doesn't let people out of a country to find a great new start for them. In this essay we will be talking about immigrants in the late days, border crossing, and families being separated.

As Immigrants would come through Ellis Island and other places with a gleaming amount of hope, they would experience something totally different on the other side. Inside the US was this feeling of Anglo-Saxon superiority and therefore immigration was frowned upon in may areas. An immigration officer from this time period cited “early economic opportunity came to an end” as one of the major things that affected immigrant life. They [immigrants] were left to find day jobs working at the first opportunity that presented itself and then return to the tenement. Out of this pattern grew an extreme feeling of isolation. Immigrants lived in their own communities, socialized with their own, and slept with their own. Nativist feelings from the american-born community were real and present and ultimately the belief was to sleep, eat, and work for someone else and be content.

Ellis Island, New York, reopened for business in 1990, but now the customers are tourists, not immigrants. This spot, which lies in New York Harbor, was the first American soil seen or touched by many of the nation’s immigrants. Though other places also served as ports of entry for foreigners, none has the symbolic power of Ellis Island. Between its opening in 1892 and its closing in 1954, over 20 million people, about two-thirds of all immigrants, were detained there before taking up their new lives in the United States. Ellis Island processed over 2000 newcomers a day when immigration was at its peak between 1900 and 1920.