Preview

Immigration at Ellis Island

Satisfactory Essays
Open Document
Open Document
976 Words
Grammar
Grammar
Plagiarism
Plagiarism
Writing
Writing
Score
Score
Immigration at Ellis Island
Jordyn J. Steinmann
Informative Speech, March 4, 2014

Title: Immigration at Ellis Island
Specific Purpose: to inform my audience about the immigration process at Ellis Island
Central Idea: The immigration process at Ellis Island had four main steps: arriving at Ellis Island, the medical examination, interrogation, and actually leaving the island
Method of Organization: chronological

Introduction Have you ever wondered where your family history lies and how your ancestors ended up in America? Well, chances are that your ancestors traveled to America and entered through Ellis Island in New York City. Ellis Island opened on January 1, 1892 and became our nation’s most popular immigration station. Up until its closing in 1954, the station processed over 12 million immigrants. In order to become a citizen, though, there were four main steps in the process of immigration at Ellis Island: arriving to America, a medical examination, interrogation, and actually leaving the island.

Transition: First I will tell you about the first step of immigration.

Body
I. The first step in the immigration process at Ellis Island is actually arriving to Amrtica.
a. Once the ship arrived in New York Harbor, inspectors came on board to inspect the first and second class passengers.
i. The inspectors checked for any contagious diseases plague, measles, and typhoid fever, as well as others. ii. If any passenger was suspected of having a disease, they were sent further on to Ellis Island, which happened very rarely. iii. According to ellisisland.org, the theory was that if a person could afford to purchase a first or second class ticket, they were less likely to become a public charge in America due to medical or legal reasons.
b. This first step was far different for “steerage” or third class passengers.
i. After the first and second class passengers disembarked in the harbor of New York, the third class passengers were then sent to Ellis Island for a thorough

You May Also Find These Documents Helpful

  • Good Essays

    The wealthier first class immigrants, received little to no hassle from public health physician. The second and third class were considered poor and they were discriminated. They went through the “short arm inspection” were hey had to reveal themselves in front of the doctors for their physical.…

    • 536 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    'The Scarborough', one of the eleven ships in the first fleet, was due to take 1450 passengers to Botany Bay. Those including officers, surgeons, sailors marines and their families, as well as convicts. Aboard the ship, Tom was youngest of all the male convicts, wearing ragged clothes and weighed down by the heavy chains cuffed to their arms and legs. They were held in the dark confined space…

    • 694 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Better Essays

    The economic reasons for traversing to the New World greatly linked with the social reasons. Between the years…

    • 947 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Good Essays

    Time Line 2

    • 1050 Words
    • 5 Pages

    Wikipedia (n.d.). History of immigration to the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Retrieved from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_immigration_to_the_United_States…

    • 1050 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Better Essays

    American merchant shipping off northern coast of Africa. But by the end of the eighteenth…

    • 1268 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    AP Human

    • 273 Words
    • 2 Pages

    4. Briefly outline the main points of the Immigration Act of 1990 (IMMACT 90). What is the basic foundation of this act?…

    • 273 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    1. Identify the two biggest sources of immigration to the United States between 1840 and 1860. List THREE ways that these groups differed?…

    • 364 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    Immigration 1800

    • 1053 Words
    • 4 Pages

    According to Berg, the nineteenth century exploded an immigration movement when approximately 20 million people from all over the world flooded the major cities around the United States in search of freedom and prosperity. Ellis Island in New York was the major hub located in the East Coast, assigned with the task to process immigrants from Russia, Italy and…

    • 1053 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    The Shock of Enslavement

    • 441 Words
    • 2 Pages

    Africans of all social ranks ended up on slave ships. Some had been village leaders; some already slaves in Africa, members of chiefs’ families and the educated elite. They were kidnapped, separated from their families, branded like cattle, and made to march in chains to the coast where they would be confined in cages until there were enough of them to fill a ship. The slaves then boarded canoes to be ferried to the ships. Many became desperate and decided to jump overboard and drown rather than be carried off to an unknown destination.…

    • 441 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Immigration Activity

    • 379 Words
    • 2 Pages

    4. Briefly outline the main points of the Immigration Act of 1990 (IMMACT 90). What is the basic foundation of this act?…

    • 379 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    As you know, I went through a series of events to get to Ellis Island and my experience there is worth telling. I will tell you about my voyage there, the very maddening inspections, and all my little experiences in-between and after.…

    • 844 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    The Great Awakening

    • 739 Words
    • 3 Pages

    The criminals, rogues, and vagabonds that were all shipped across the Atlantic as indentured servants came to escape England. In England they were viewed down upon so coming to the New World was a great choice and as they…

    • 739 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Maritime Law

    • 886 Words
    • 4 Pages

    3- The voyage, or period of time, or both, as the case may be, covered by the…

    • 886 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    APUSH Notes

    • 6486 Words
    • 23 Pages

    3. Slippery Spanish and British agents moved freely among the settlers and held out seductive promises of independence (United States appeared disjointed)…

    • 6486 Words
    • 23 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    gasd

    • 293 Words
    • 1 Page

    4. Briefly outline the main points of the Immigration Act of 1990 (IMMACT 90). What is the basic foundation of this act?…

    • 293 Words
    • 1 Page
    Good Essays