Ellis Island
The start
The destruction
Current State
Ellis Island closed in 1954, because not many immigrants were coming through anymore.
Ellis Island was created on January 2, 1892. $75,000 were used for the building of this immigration center.
During the start of Ellis Island, only German, Irish, and English people immigrated through the place. Though later on, more southern and eastern Europeans came along.
"Ellis Island was primarily designed to filter them, letting only the best and most able into the country."
Just a small amount of immigrants were sent back to their home land, 2-4%.
The island is a immigration facility located in New York Harbor.
The museum allows Americans to research their past and how it may connect to the immigration island itself.
Around 40 percent of Americans can find that part of their family immigrated through Ellis Island.
The first Museum of Ellis Island opened in 1990. It once again closed for reconstruction and was reopened again in 2011. It is now named the National Museum of Immigration
"There are many more journeys to recount in this melting pot of a nation.
$20 million were spent to renovate the already created museum.
The museum holds a lot of the history it went through in the 1800s to late 19002.
This center allows all generations to be involved, the past present and future
The immigration island was held as a detention center for the threats against America during World War I and II
In the 1920's the care of Ellis Island greatly decreased as less medical care and mental exams were limited.
1930 - There was an equal number of people who left the island as there were people who entered.
The many "enemy aliens" were not allowed to pass through the immigration place causing a decline of immigrants
New laws were passed during the time of World War II which caused the amount of European Immigrants to be small
In 1897 a fire occurred causing the destruction of Ellis Island
12 million people immigrated through Ellis island, 3/4 of migrants. Busiest day on April 17, 1907, 11,747 immigrants passed through.
"Many European immigrant accounts of their experience at Ellis Island emphasized the hopefulness of arrival and the often confusing and sometimes frightening aspects of inspection."