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Charles emigrated from Russia and as he grow up he was forced to lose his identity. No matter how much he tried, he couldn't maintain it. This just goes to show that people who looked white and looked like "americans" had an easier time getting into the country but anything that wasn't apart of "american culture" had to be purged for the sake of "purity"

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Charles Remembers Maintaining His Identity

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Charles Remembers Maintaining His Identity

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"And after that I didn't care about that. I wanted to be Americanized. I want to be an American, and I want to accept my opportunities and take the, make the most of them." -Charles W. Beller (Kalman Bilchick)

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This quote shows that the move to America changed people and caused for some to lose a part of themselves. The US government tried hard enough to not even allow people to come to the US, but even the people it did allow to stay had to lose a part of themselves to stay.

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"So, my teacher suggested, since none of the children could pronounce Gudrun, which is an old Germanic-Scandinavian name, and a very beautiful name (I hear), she gave me a list of girls' names to choose from. So that all the kids could converse, you know, know what to call me. So I picked the name starting with a g, as with my name, and it was Gertrude. I'm not very happy with it, but it has stuck with me all of these years." - Gertrude (Gudrun) Hildebrandt Moller

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Martha Walter '1875-1976' Ellis Island Oil on Panel

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Martha Walter '1875-1976' Ellis Island Oil on Panel

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Similarly to Harry K. Davis, Martha Walter painted the faces of the many immigrants hoping to be accepted in the country of freedom. At Ellis Island, Walter depicts the rough conditions like heat and over-crowding by showing sweat(shiny foreheads) and women and children shoved together.

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Martha Walter, Ellis Island Oil on Panel,

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Martha Walter, Ellis Island Oil on Panel,

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1875-1876

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Vintage Painting of Ellis Island by Artist Harry K. Davis

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Vintage Painting of Ellis Island by Artist Harry K. Davis

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This painting shows the busy public of Ellis Island. You can see the effort that Harry K. Davis put into painting the people coming in and out of Ellis Island

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Vintage Painting of Ellis Island by Artist Harry K. Davis

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Vintage Painting of Ellis Island by Artist Harry K. Davis

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made in 1985

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were Chinese and though the work they did kept most of the west coast afloat, the locals found that the Chinese were "stealing jobs" and forced the government to do something about it. The Chinese helped to work on the Transcontinental Railroad and the Central Pacific Railroad, but suffered discrimination from other workers and employers.

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Due to New York being too crowded, Ellis Island opened its land to become the largest immigration station in history. Ellis Island processed about 12 million immigrants in its time, 1892 to 1954.

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The first the law restricting immigration into the US. Californians were upset that Chinese workers accepted lower wages, thus corporations and employers hiring them over the locals. The Act banned Chinese immigration for the next 10 years. At the moment, there were roughly 105,000 Chinese immigrants in America.

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As the first colonists developed America, their ideals of individual freedom and communal prosperity were pushed towards inequality and Puritanism, causing governmental discrimination towards any immigrants from places different than those of the first colonists.