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Chapter 1                               Why people came to America 

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Chapter 1                               Why people came to America 

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Why they came:
They came to America for a better life, freedom, better job and opportunity. Some also came because they were hungry and poor.

Where they came from:
Europe, China, and other.

When did they come:
1800s and the early 1900s.

People who wanted to farm:
There was more land in the America. Most farmers did not own land. So, they had to pay the landowner. By the time they paid the landowner, there was hardly enough food to feed themselves.

Europe, 1800s:
Bad weather and diseases damaged harvests and some crops failed. As a result, many people had to struggle to get enough to eat.

In Ireland:
The main crop grown is potatoes and  diseases damaged it. During the first years, people were hungry, then as the potatoes continued to fail, millions of people in Ireland died. A million others fled to America.

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Beginning in 1892, Ellis Island was the first place that immigrants went to when they arrived in New York. In 1903, a poem by the American poet Emma Lazarus was added to the base of the Statue of Liberty. Lady Liberty, as the statue is also called, holds a torch in her right hand that stands for freedom  and liberty. The Statue was placed there in 1886, and from then on it was one of the first things many immigrants saw as they sailed into the harbor. The Statue of Liberty was built by a French sculptor, broken up into pieces, and shipped to the United States. It was then put back together on an island  in New York Harbor. Lady Liberty holds a stone table in her left hand. On that tablet is a very important date in American history: July 4, 1776. On that date, the Declaration of Independence was signed. The poem from Emma Lazarus imagines America speaking to people all over the world and saying, Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breath free. When immigrants arrived on Ellis Island, doctors and health inspectors checked to see that they were healthy. If an immigrant had a serious disease, that person was sent back home. If they were healthy, they were allowed to enter the United States. About twelve million men, women, and children passed through Ellis Island between 1892 and 1924.

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Andrew was a hard worker.

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The Statue of Liberty in New York City harbor is a symbol of welcome.

The statue was a gift to the United States from the people of France.

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The carningi arrived in New York and traveled to pittsburgh  in pennsylvania.

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The carningi arrived in New York and traveled to pittsburgh  in pennsylvania.

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to begin with, a person you must be at least 18 years old.

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They fell on hard times.

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Andrew carnigi and his family went to america from scotland.

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Many immigrants who came to United States stayed in the big cities in the eastern part of United States. Immigrants helped make New York the biggest city in the United State.

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You do not need to be born in America to be an American citizen. He or she must have lived U.S for at least 5 years to become an American citizen. You also have to be at least 18 years old to be an American citizen. American citizens all have same rights, whether they are rich or poor. Over time, millions of immigrants have come to the U.S. In order to be an American citizen you must learn to read and write in English, learn American history, laws, and government.