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”