Immigration

1. Describe the causes of the immigration of Southern and Eastern Europeans, Chinese, Koreans, and Japanese to America in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
2. Describe the journey immigrants endured and their experiences at United States immigration stations.

1.) They left their homeland because jobs were scarse.the mexicans came because after the mexican war they needed to escape termoil, others came becasue america took over some territory. Some came to escape diffcult conditions, like lack of food, diesaes, religon, politics etc. most were "Lured" here because they knew they could have a better life.

2.) The immigrates traveled from their homeland by steamships. On these steamships the immigrants they shared a small space, because of this the dieseas spread rapidly! When they arrived in america of the east coast they had to go through Ellis Island. At Ellis Island they were put through tests, they needed to be dieseas free, and make the legal requriment.
The West coast people went through Angle Island. Here the selections and tests were much harder because Americans were prejudice against them.