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This is a educational digital story about Ellis Island and how immigrants came to America.

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When they arrived in the port of New York they were taken from their ships and officers processed them at Ellis Island. In the Registry Room health officers looked for signs of diseases.

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When immigrants arrived in New York, were happy,  because they had survived. Ellis Island, was Island of Hope because was the symbol of new opportunities  and life. For other people it became Island of Tears, because they coudn't entry the country.

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The hygiene conditions were terrible: the rooms were small and the people slept with other people. In the rooms there were little air. There was easy took diseases.

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They travelled across Atlantic ocean by steamship. The trip took one or two weeks. They came from Northern Europe, Ireland, England, Germany in the 1840s, and from Southern and Eastern Europe from 1890 and 1924.

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Immigrants went to Ellis Island to escape from poverty,hunger, religious and political persecution. They went to USA to find a job, a freedom and better life. Men usually emigrated first to find work and housing