WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
IMMIGRATION IN INDUSTRIAL AMERICA
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checked for trichoma (eye disease)
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took names of all immigrants entering the U.S.
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accepted payment from incoming immigrants
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -1900s. Immigrants arriving in the US on Ellis Island were checked for trachoma using a buttonhook to examine their eyelids – they often warned each other to ‘beware the buttonhook men’. Anyone found to have the disease was sent home or treated before being allowed into the country.
Detailed explanation-2: -Ellis Island doctors were particularly watching for signs of contagious diseases like trachoma, tuberculosis, diphtheria, and other states of health such as poor physique, pregnancy and mental disability.
Detailed explanation-3: -Firsthand accounts from the physical They would tell each other “beware the buttonhook men.” The trachoma exam was unpleasant because a doctor used a buttonhook to turn the eyelids inside out and check for this contagious disease.
Detailed explanation-4: -Turning a corner, immigrants came upon another physician, perhaps older than the first, who quickly everted each eyelid to look for trachoma. Physicians marked any immigrant suspected of disease or defect with chalk.
Detailed explanation-5: -Lucy Attarian was a five-year-old Armenian child from Turkey who came to America in 1921. During the legal inspection on Ellis Island, the immigration officials doubted that Attarian was her parents’ child because she had light coloring and they were darker.