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"This book explores the way government policy and popular responses to immigrant groups evolved throughout U.S. history, particularly between 1800 and 1965. The book concludes with a summary of events up to contemporary times, as immigration again becomes a hot-button issue."--Provided by publisher.
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From 1892 to 1954, Ellis Island was the gateway to a new life in the United States for millions of immigrants. In later years, the island was deserted, the buildings decaying. Ellis Island was not restored until the 1980s, when Americans from all over the country donated more than $150 million. It opened to the public once again in 1990 as a museum. Learn more about America's history, and perhaps even your own, through the story of one of the most...
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Compares and contrasts the experiences of various immigrant groups when they arrived in America in the 1900s. Discusses the reasons groups immigrated to America, their misconceptions about the country, the path to citizenship, and the experiences of Irish, Chinese, Polish, Russian, Japanese, Italian, Swedish, Norwegian, and Greek immigrants. Includes fact boxes, a timeline, photographs, a glossary, and further resources.
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Highlights immigration to America from the first wave of immigrants in the late 1500s to the influx of immigrants from countries such as Ireland, Germany, and China in the 1800s and early 1900s. Includes a timeline, a glossary, resources for further information, text-related questions, and photographs.
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Explains the history of Ellis Island, its significance in United States history, and how it came to be restored into a museum, national landmark, and tourist attraction. Highlights its main attractions, including the Statue of Liberty. Features color photographs, a map, fact boxes, questions relating to the text, a glossary, and further resources.
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A middle-grade history of the "other Ellis Island" traces how Angel Island served as an entry point for one million Asian immigrants to the United States in the early 20th century, drawing on memoirs, diaries, letters and "wall poems" discovered at the facility long after it closed to describe the center's screening process, immigration policies and eventual renaissance as a historic site.