Immigration In the late 1800s , America became the land of new opportunities and new beginnings and New York City became the first landmark for immigrants. New York City was home to Ellis Island, the area in which migrants were to be handed for freedom to enter the nation. …show more content…
northern and western Europe–Germany, Ireland, Britain and the Scandinavian countries–slowed, more foreigners poured in from southern and eastern Europe. Among this new era were Jews getting away from political and financial abuse in czarist Russia and eastern Europe (exactly 484,000 landed in 1910 alone) and Italians getting away destitution in their nation. There were additionally Poles, Hungarians, Czechs, Serbs, Slovaks and Greeks, alongside non-Europeans from Syria, Turkey and Armenia. The reasons they cleared out their homes in the Old World included war, drought, starvation and religious mistreatment, and all had sought after a more prominent open door in the New