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What do you think these people are thinking in this photograph?
14 Million between 1860-1900 Looking for a new life
U.S. Born 1870- 32,676,000 1880- 42,869,000 1890- 52,919,000 1900- 64,344,000
Foreign Born 1870- 5,480,000 1880- 6,499,000 1890- 9,198,000 1900- 10,263,000
U.S. had plenty of new jobs
Few immigration restrictions
Avoid military service
Jewish population fled from religious persecution
Processing Center for many immigrants
Most passed through in about a day
Layers of inspections
You carried you entire life.
About 1 in 5 newcomers were marked with chalk “H” heart problems “K” for hernias “X” for mental disability
Eye Test.
The Button Hook
Waiting to see if they have passed.
Registry Room
Waiting their turn
Registry Room
You thought lines at Disneyland were bad!
Inspection Card Showing you have no diseases
Immigrants often settled in large cities
New York, Chicago, Milwaukee, and Detroit
Neighborhoods were often separated into ethnic groups
Life was nearly as good as they were told it would be.
Buildings were often sub-standard.
How well immigrants adapted depended on how well they learned: English American Culture
Adapted better if they had: Working skills Money Connection to own ethnic group
China was suffering from: Unemployment Famine Poverty
Discovery of gold in California brought new immigrants
Central Pacific Railroad hired on Chinese immigrants
Settled in Western cities Laborers, servants, or merchants
San Francisco Bay Barracks opened to process Asian
Immigrants Most were young males in teens or
early 20’s Could be housed for months waiting
process
Arrival in Angel Island
Same types of exams
And More Tests…
Detention Building…while you waited
"Ellis Island was created to let Europeans in," said Robert Barde, deputy director of the Institute of Business and Economic Research at the University of California, Berkeley, who is writing a book on immigration.
"Angel Island was created to keep the Chinese out."