Immigrants_Making_Their_Way_To_Freedom

Immigrants Making Their Way To Freedom Ellis Island received thousands of immigrants a day from 1840 to 1924. Great steamships of the early 20th century transported faces of thousand nations to the New York Harbor. There were Russian Jews with fascinated beards, Irish farmers who carried marks of hard work from their home land, Greeks in slippers and kilts, Italians with mustaches, Cossacks carrying fierce swords, English in short knickers, and Arabs in long robes. A new life was ahead of them, leaving their old ones behind along with families and friends. As the immigrants glanced at their first sight of America, they were able to see America’s most populous port and America’s powerful welcome of the Statue of Liberty. On the New Jersey side of the river, were the red brick buildings of Ellis Island. The four towers of its largest building rose over 140 feet into the air. This was a place of rules and questions, the official building, where five thousand people were processed each day. The men were migrated first, in order to seek out jobs and housings. The wives, children, and parents followed. In all, 60 million people sought out to America to find immigrants, island, ellis, new, america, room, inspectors, immigration, first, thousand, steamships, registry, people, inspection, during, came, years, two, took, three, steerage, peak, passengers, over, out, made, line, land, inspected, harbor, even, doctors, diseases, day, conditions