Today we are going to watch a documentary about Ellis Island.
Please think about your essay and the three hardships you have chosen.
If there are any good facts in the documentary, be ready to write them down.
After the documentary is finished, we are going to work on our paragraphs.
You will hand these in TODAY!!!
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Three hardships immigrants faced when immigrating to the U.S. was that they sometimes weren’t allowed in because they were sick, and while they were on the boat they had strong storms which caused they’re sickness, during this time it was also the biggest wave of immigrants that had ever immigrated. Sometimes when they tried to go into the U.S. they couldn’t because they were sick. Due to that sometimes they had to be separated from their families for a while until the sick immigrant was cured. Another hardship was that they were immigrating by boat. They had to be on the lowest part of the boat where there was little space so they were really crowded. The last Hardship Im going to talk about is that it was hard to get into the U.S. because you had to go to so many tests where they checked you to make sure you didn’t bring any weapons or had a sickness or other things like that. Since so many immigrants were going in the other immigrants had to wait a long time to get in the U.S. and some didn’t succeed. Basically immigration in the U.S. was hard for some immigrants since all they could do is hope that they were let in.
The hardships that immigrants faced when deciding to immigrate to the United States during 1875- 1920 was facing the difference between fantasy and reality. Many came in hopes of having a new fresh start at life with many great opportunities but only had those dreams crushed by reality. As the great boat full of eager souls approached the first sight of the grand Statue of Liberty, they felt like heaven was in their sights. The Statue of Liberty brought hopes as well as tears to those in search of inhabiting this almost dream like place. Those dreams and hopes all came to one main idea, living a life with a future. As more than twelve million men and women passed through Ellis Island, not everyone who came was approved. Known as the largest human migration in history, the United States was truly, at the time, one of the greatest wonders of the world.
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