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Immigration-
Immigration is defined as "The movement of people between countries"
-Most Immigrants came to the United States of America to escape religous persecution and to get jobs one the main check points
that Immigrants fled to was called "Ellis Island". Ellis Island was at one time the main entry facility for immigrants entering
the United States from January 1, 1892 until November 12, 1954.Immigrants came to America to escape religious, racial, and
political persecution, or seeking relief from a lack of economic opportunity or famine still pushed many immigrants out of
their homelands. Many were pulled here by contract labor agreements offered by recruiting agents, known as padrones to Italian
and Greek laborers. Hungarians, Poles, Slovaks, Bohemians, and Italians flocked to the coal mines or steel mills, Greeks preferred
the textile mills, Russian and Polish Jews worked the needle trades or pushcart markets of New York.
| The symbol of Freedom! |
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| First View Immigrants saw upon docking |
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