immigration and ellis island by jean rice
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Immigration and Ellis Island BY Jean Rice. Think About…. What does the term “immigrant” mean? Why did people want to leave their homeland and come to America? Describe what the journey to America may have been like. What was Ellis Island? Where is it located? - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
What does the term “immigrant” mean?
Why did people want to leave their homeland and come to America?
Describe what the journey to America may have been like.
What was Ellis Island? Where is it located?
What did immigrants experience upon their arrival in America?
Wikipedia says :Immigrants are people
who move to a new country.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigrants_(disambiguation)
Promises of freedom and opportunity for a better life
They may have been mistreated in their homeland because of religious beliefs or political ideas
They heard that in America success could be found through hard work
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/i?pp/ils:@field(NUMBER+@band(cph+3a13598)):displayType=1:m856sd=cph:m856sf=3a13598
With a partner, use the Photo Analysis Word
document (on the Y drive) to record
your thoughts about the previous
photo.
The document looks like this
Name______________________ Class_______________
Photo Analysis Worksheet
1. Look caref ully at the photograph. What is your fi rst impression of it?
2. List people, objects and activities you see in the photograph. People Objects Activities
3. What do you think is happening in this photo?
4. What questions might you have about this photo?
"Oh God, I was sick. Everybody was sick. I don't even want to remember anything about that old boat. One night I prayed to God that it would go down because the waves were washing over it. I was that sick, I didn't care if it went down or not. And everybody else was the same way."-Bertha Devlin, an Irish immigrant in 1923
http://library.thinkquest.org/20619/Eivirt.html
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a13599
Immigrants waiting to be transferred
http://sydaby.eget.net/swe/pics/ellis_island_l.jpg
"I remember my grandfather always telling me how he knew he could be rich in America because he saw riches in the architecture of Ellis Island. He felt that if they let the poor in such a gorgeous hall then life in this country was just."-Rosanne Welch, granddaughter of Giuseppe Italiano, and Italian immigrant in 1904
http://students.umf.maine.edu/yestrajm/public.www/Immigration%20Website/ny.jpg
http://library.thinkquest.org/20619/Eivirt.html
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a14957
What did immigrants experience upon their arrival
in America?
Landing at Ellis Island
Immigrants just arrived from Foreign Countrieshttp://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ed/Ellis_Island_arrivals.jpg
Detention pen--on roof of main building where immigrants held for deportation could go in fine weather
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c16223
Virtual Tour of Ellis Island
http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/immigration/tour/stop1.htm
Let’s find out more…
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mbrsmi/lcmp002.m2a10987
“Shows a large open barge loaded with people of every nationality, who have just arrived from
Europe, disembarking at Ellis Island, N.Y. A most interesting and typical scene.”
Click the photos and then choose one of the formats to view (RealMedia, MPEG or Quicktime)