Ellis Island opg engelsk
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- Where do you find Ellis Island
- New York Harbor (Google Maps).
- Immigrants that went through Ellis Island
- More than 12 million.
- What was the role of Ellis Island in 1794-1890
- It wasn't a immigration station, but it played a great military role, it was purchased by the goverment of USA, in 1808, because it was a great undefended spot in New York harbor.
- First immigrants
- England, Ireland, Germany and the Scandinavian countries.
- Registry room
- Doctors would briefly scan every immigrant.
- Resons to exclude immigrants
- Diseases and physical disorders.
- If they were thought to become a public threat or an illegal contract laborer.
- When was it closed
- The immigrant station closed and abandoned after 1954.
