Industrial Revolution Immigration

The Second Industrial Revolution was another great step forward into the development of commercial enterprise. New inventions such as steel manufacture and electricity led to the start of airplanes, automobiles and many other great inventions we use today. Due to America having a lot resources, a lot of immigrants wanted to live in America. Immigration means moving to another country to begin a new life. Between the years 1870 and 1900, nearly 25 million people from all over the world immigrated to America. These people immigrated to America to seek freedom, jobs, and to start a new life. The most ethnics of immigrants were the Europeans and the East Asian immigrants. Both races went through hardship to find freedom and a new life to have and

They left to start a new life, to get jobs, money and many more great resources they probably couldn’t get back in their homeland. Back in their homeland they faced many hardships such as poor economic conditions, persecution, political oppression, and freedom from religion. Because of this, many different kinds of Europeans immigrated to America such as French, Italians, Dutch, Irish, Polish, American Jews, Germans, Swedish immigrants and etc. Their destination was Ellis Island, but it was a struggle traveling there. To get to Ellis Island they had to ride on steam ships. It was heard that the voyage was very difficult due to little space, less privacy, bad weather, people getting sick, and shortage of food. Depending on which part of Europe you stayed in, it would take a minimum amount of days (10-20 days) to get to their destination. Ellis Island was a European immigration process located in New York. Ellis Island opened in 1892 as a federal immigration location and was the gateway for millions of immigrants to the United States. When the Europeans went inside, they were taken inside in the Registry Room. During the inspection, they had to be questioned and checked to see if they weren’t carrying infectious diseases. The inspection would last at least five hours. Out of all the immigrants, twelve million people passed the inspection and passed through its doors and about two percent of the people were not

They immigrated for the same reasons as the Europeans. They were very poor and wanted to save money and send some back to their families who are poor and facing through struggles. Back in their homeland they faced poor economic conditions, floods, wars, famines and many other unfortunate reasons so moving to America was a great opportunity for them to start a new life and hope for the best. During this time period, most East Asian people immigrated such as the, Philippine and Korean people, but mostly Chinese and Japanese people. Since Ellis Island was very far from their starting point, they had to go to a closer immigration station called Angel Island. To travel to Angel Island they had to travel by boat. Most of the immigrants were very poor; they couldn’t afford to travel on it so they had to borrow money from their relatives and friends. The voyage took at least three weeks. Angel Island is located in San Francisco Bay, California. It opened as an immigration station in 1910. Ellis Island was very different from Ellis Island. Their “inspection” was more like an interrogation and the immigrants were detained. Most of the immigrants were kept for as little as two weeks or unfortunately kept to as much as six months. About one million immigrants were processed at Angel Island, but eighty percent passed the interrogation. For the people who passed the immigration