ISBN:
9781421413679
,
9781421413686
Language:
English
Pages:
X, 168 S.
,
Ill.
Series Statement:
How things worked
DDC:
304.8/7304
Keywords:
Ellis Island Immigration Station (N.Y. and N.J.) History
;
Geschichte 1892-1924
;
HISTORY / United States / General
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration
;
HISTORY / Social History
;
Einwanderer
;
Geschichte
;
Migration
;
Immigrants History
;
HISTORY / United States / General
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration
;
HISTORY / Social History
;
Einwanderung
;
USA
;
United States Emigration and immigration
;
History
;
Ellis Island
;
Ellis Island
;
Einwanderung
;
Geschichte 1892-1924
Abstract:
"America is famously known as a nation of immigrants. Millions of Europeans journeyed to the United States in the peak years of 1892-1924, and Ellis Island, New York, is where the great majority landed. Ellis Island opened in 1892 with the goal of placing immigration under the control of the federal government and systematizing the entry process. Encountering Ellis Island introduces readers to the ways in which the principal nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American portal for Europeans worked in practice, with some comparison to Angel Island, the main entry point for Asian immigrants.
Note:
Includes index
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