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Immigrants were usually detained 3 or 4 hours and then were free to leave.
If they didn't receive stamps of immigrants then they were criminals or carriers of disease and were sent back to their place of origin.

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Doctors and nurses would check out the immigrants for signs of diseases or debilitating handicaps.

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Russian and Polish Jews worked the needle trades or pushcart markets of new York.

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Government inspectors would ask a whole list of questions about the immigrants.
~ Do you have money , relatives, or a job in the United States?
~ Are you polygamist?
~ An anarchist?

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the reason they escaped because of racial, political persecution, seeking relief from lack of economic opportunity

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The Ellis Island center was built in 1892. That center handled 12 million European Immigrants.

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In spite of immigrants difficulties in the states most people stayed and only a few people gave up and returned home

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For people who came into the country their life was not easy. Their jobs were very hazardous and got very little money. Their houses were overcrowded and unsanitary.

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After 1914 Immigration dropped off due to the war and later, the immigration restrictions imposed in the 1920´s

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By 1910 Eastern and Southern Europeans made up 70 percent of the immigrants entering the country

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Immigrants that entered the United States that couldn't afford first or second class came through the processing center at Ellis Island in New York.

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after 1880´s immigrants came from Eastern and Southern European countries (plus Canada and Latin America) with numbers increasing

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For people who are arriving in the country without family they would be placed in ethnic neighborhoods with their fellow countrymen and they would still practice their religion and have celebrations.

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immigrants from Northern and Western Europe pursued, but numbers decreased

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immigration jumped from 3.5 million to 9 million in the first decade of the new century