Immigrant Slideshow #1
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Transcript of Immigrant Slideshow #1
Ellis Island
• Arriving immigrants leave their ships at the city's wharves and are shuttled by ferry to the island with their belongings, were there was a beautiful walk way leading to their new American lives.
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Immigrants Being Tagged for a Railroad Trip, 1926
• The tags on the chests of the immigrants were to let people know where they were suppose to be going.
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A woman sleeping on her bag because that was all she had.
• Most immigrants came with everything they owned, always keeping it by them so no one could steal it from them.
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Immigrants enjoying a mid-morning lunch
• With fresh milk everyone is happy. Immigrants were not treated poorly, they were workers to people and that was it.
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Immigrants take the time to be happy and dance
• Immigrants worked hard, laborious work. They took the time to be thankful to be working a celebrated with all they had.
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Tenement Apartment
• A typical immigrant housing set-up, many had a little room for two people let alone have room for a family.
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Bath-time
• The child bathing in the picture is actually bathing in the sink. The sink held water and you may notice the child in fully clothed. Well, the child is bathing a washing his clothes.
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Homework
• Immigrants who did not finish a day’s work would take it home a finish it that night. This was considered homework.
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Lunch time
• Immigrant’s who had food had very little, ate it during lunch. No breakfast nor no dinner. These girls don’t seem to be eating a whole lot.
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Shanty Town in Patterson, NJ
• Houses built from whatever they could find. Most was a place to go when there was no where else to go.
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Accident in the Steel Mill
• This man looses his arm in a accident at the steel mill and in many cases men lose their lives.
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Tenement Rookeries, Washington, DC
• Immigrant homes were run down shacks no matter where they lived. These homes where just a place to stay.
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Boys and men of all ages
• Work was work, whether you were a boy at the age of 6 or a man at the age of 66. A job was money and money is what you needed
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Working
• Children of all ages had jobs. Money to flow in, any way possible. Low wages ment everyone had a job to do.
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Quiz:
1. Where did immigrant go when first getting to the America's?
Answer: Ellis Island
2. What were the tags on the immigrants meant for? Answer: Where they were to go
3. Why did people always keep their bags close? Answer: It was all they had.
4. What did the immigrants do when they were thankful for something? Answer: Enjoy life by dance+celebrating
5. What did immigrants consider homework? Answer: work unfinished that day
6. What were most immigrant homes like? Answer: Run-down and made of anything
7. Why do you think immigrants got jobs so quick? Answer: Dangerous jobs for little pay
8. At what ages did many people start working? Answer: Whenever they were hired
9. Were in some cases families split up? Answer: Yes they were
10. What was a major sign that you were at Ellis Island? Answer: the beautiful walk way