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Julissa Young Mrs. Forrest 8th Grade Exit Project 4/8/11 ** Ellis Island **

Ellis Island was an immigration station for people in other countries to come to America. They had to be examined before being allowed into America. They had to observe every little detail possible to make sure they were healthy. The people came because of what was going on with there countries, so they did not have to deal with it anymore. Some left there families and friends, others left there traditions and customs; they all came here for freedom.

Culture and Major Events are similar and different to one another during 1921-1931. Many immigrants mainly came from Europe; others came from Asia, West Indies, or the Middle East. Some people were Italian, Irish, Polish, British, German, Russian, Jewish, Greek, Cossades, and Arab. Many of them left there country because of famine, high taxes, population, religious persecution, war, leaders, poverty, and other trouble they have been through. Immigrants that were coming to America were leaving their families, friends, traditions, and customs. When coming to Ellis Island, they brought diseases, disabilities, and physical conditions that the doctors had to examine before settling in America, so they had to be healthy.

The first Immigration Quota Law passed the U.S. Congress, adding more problems to Ellis Island. It was that the number of any European nationality entering in a given year, could not exceed three percent of its foreign born people of that nationality that lived in the United States in 1910. The Immigration Act of 1924 still restricted immigrants. It also provided the examination and qualification of immigrants at U.S. consulates overseas. Funds from the Public Works Administration permitted the landfill of recreation grounds on the Manhattan side of the Main Building.

560,971, immigrants passed through Ellis Island in 1921. Nationality was determined by birth, and no more than 20 percent of the quota of any nationality could be received in any given month. The total number of immigrants under the system was nearly 358,000, but numerous classes were exempt, because some immigrants didn,t have any sicknesses or were werent any trouble trying to get them ready for america. The main function of Ellis Island changed from an immigration processing station to a center of assembly, detention, and depuration of people who had come to the U.S. illegally or had violated the terms of admittance.