WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
AMERICAN INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT IN THE GILDED AGE
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They didn’t want immigrants to bring diseases into the US
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They were discriminating against immigrants
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They had prejudice and did it just to be mean
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They wanted to spread disease
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Detailed explanation-1: -The first category are certain highly contagious diseases, which include the following: infectious syphilis, gonorrhea, infectious leprosy, active tuberculosis, chancroid, lymphogranuloma venereum, and granuloma inguinale.
Detailed explanation-2: -Any immigrant suspected of being in questionable health was chalk-marked with a letter of the alphabet ("B” for back problems, “F” for face, “H” for heart) and taken out of line and moved to a physical or mental examination room.
Detailed explanation-3: -Most immigrants were refused entry because of some medical condition. Shipping companies were required, at their own expense, to detain and return rejected immigrants to their homeland.
Detailed explanation-4: -Ellis Island-where roughly 70 percent of immigrants entered the United States-set the standard. After an arriving ship passed the quarantine inspection in New York Harbor, IS and PHS examiners boarded and examined all first-and second-class passengers as the ship proceeded up the harbor [4].