WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
IMMIGRATION IN INDUSTRIAL AMERICA
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locations of settlement houses in San Francisco and New York City.
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New immigrants from Europe were allowed right away and Asian immigrants had to wait.
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centers of shipping and industry were on opposite sides of the transcontinental railroad.
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amusement parks were more fun on one island than the other.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Unlike Ellis Island, where Europeans were subject to restrictions that precluded entrance for some but not most immigrants, the Angel Island Immigration Station employed discriminatory policies that were used to prevent Asians from immigrating.
Detailed explanation-2: -Chinese immigrants were held on Angel Island for weeks, months, or even years while awaiting hearings or appeals on their applications. In contrast, immigrants passing through Ellis Island on American’s east coast-who were generally European-were processed within hours or days and merely had to pass medical exams.
Detailed explanation-3: -By the early 1900s, many of the immigrants to the United States from Europe entered the country through Ellis Island, an immigration center in New York. On the West Coast, hundreds of thousands of immigrants, mostly from Asia, entered through another immigration center, Angel Island.
Detailed explanation-4: -When first learning about Angel Island, one notices the similarities between Angel Island and Ellis Island. The US government open both Angel Island and Ellis Island after 1891 when the government created its first immigration administration. Both stations sit on picturesque islands in the middle of prominent US ports.