American Immigration In The Late 1800's

In the late 1800’s there were many issues concerning immigration . They were coming in from places like China to England and everywhere inbetween. Most immigrants come to Ellis Island to start a new life in American. It was very hard for the immigrants to find things like a job,food, and simply a place to live. One of the hardest things for them was the fact they didn’t all speak the same language. It was extremely hard for them to communicate with each other. Most of the immigrants would come with nothing but the clothes on their backs. They had to work for everything in order to make it in America. Believe it or not making a life in America wasn’t as hard as getting there in the first place.
In order to make it to America you needed to take a big boat. They …show more content…
They would put people in different parts of the ship depending on their social class. Once they made it to Ellis Island they had to go through a extremely intense health inspection. They were very harsh and intense when it came it to health inspection. They would check almost every part of the body from eyelids to make sure u didn’t have a cold. There was two common categories you would be put into if one of the health inspectors questioned your health. There was Class A where they would put the dangerous contagious diseases. There was also Class B diseases and conditions that would led an immigrant to likely to become a public charge. Class A conditions included mental conditions such as insanity and epilepsy. (Bateman-House) If any of the inspectors even saw you cough there was a chance you wouldn’t even make it through the health inspection. In my cartoon it shows a kaotic group of people from all over. Some are from Poland and others from Italy coming and waiting in line just come to America finally. Children would get separated