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Immigration in the 1890s
Ellis Island, New York Harbor
Steerage
Before Ellis Island
Going to Ellis
Waiting in Line
The Great Hall
Medical Inspections
You’ve Passed (Or Quarantined)
Going Elsewhere
Angel Island
Immigrant Experience Settled—Ghettoes Restrictive Covenants Chinese Exclusion Act (1882) Gentlemen’s Agreement (1907)
Anti-Immigrant Feelings Took American jobs! Drove down wages! Nativists Chinese (RR workers)
stoned to death by mobs in San Francisco
1885: Whites attacked 500 Chinese workers (killed 28)
1902: NY City Irish beath up hundreds of Jews “for entering their neighborhood”
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