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Ellis Island and Angel Island
Ellis Island and Angel Island
The two most common ports of entry into the United States were at Ellis Island (right) and Angel Island (below).
Ellis Island located in New York Harbour took in many European immigrants
Angel Island in California took in many Asian immigrants
Ellis Island Virtual Tour Assignment
Ellis Island Virtual Tour Assignment
Click on the button below to start the virtual tour of Ellis Island. On the linked website you will see 4 tabs at the top each tab has a corresponding assignment:
Click on the button below to start the virtual tour of Ellis Island. On the linked website you will see 4 tabs at the top each tab has a corresponding assignment:
Explore Ellis Island, then complete a corresponding assignment on GC.
Meet Young Immigrants, complete an extra credit assignment by writing a summary and reflection.
Immigration Data, use the data to answer question on a corresponding assignment on GC.
Were Immigrants welcomed in this country during the Gilded Age? Read and view the pictures by clicking the button below.
Were Immigrants welcomed in this country during the Gilded Age? Read and view the pictures by clicking the button below.
Video's on Immigration
Video's on Immigration
My Immigration Story
My Immigration Story
Immigrants tell their story of why they moved from one place to another.
Push and Pull Migration C.E.R. Assignment
JL, Push-Pull Factors & Categories.PDF
Jacob Riis Photo Collection from "How the Other Half Live"
Jacob Riis Photo Collection from "How the Other Half Live"
"Knee-pants" at forty five cents a dozen—A Ludlow Street Sweater's Shop, c. 1890, How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York
Jacob August Riis, The Mulberry Bend, c. 1890, How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York
Jacob August Riis, "A man atop a make-shift bed that consists of a plank across two barrels," c. 1890, How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York
Jacob Riis. Italian Mother and Her Baby in Jersey Street, 1888–1889. Modern gelatin printing out paper. Museum of the City of New York, Gift of Roger William Riis
In Jersey Street
In Jersey Street
An Italian family lived in this one-room, windowless home on Jersey Street, a few blocks from Riis’s Mulberry Street office. Jersey Street in the map above is sandwiched between Prince and East Houston Streets and is crammed with the back-to-back tenements that Riis railed against. In Riis’s photograph the family’s possessions and furnishings, which includes a rolled mattress, barrel, and piles of clothes; a dustpan, a basin, a wooden pallet that may have served as a bed, and a cast iron stove and various containers, fill the frame. Riis commented on the Italian custom of swaddling: “You can see how they wrap [their babies] around and around until you can almost stand them on either end and they won’t bend, so tightly are they bound.”
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/jacob-riis/riis-and-reform.html#obj040
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