Ellis Island

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• Ellis Island

  • America's first federal immigration station was established in 1890 on Ellis Island.
  • Generally, immigrants who were approved spent from two to five hours at Ellis Island.
  • Ellis Island was sometimes known as "The Island of Tears" or "Heartbreak Island" because of the 2% who were not admitted after the long transatlantic voyage.
  • The first Ellis Island Immigration Station opened in 1892.
  • Nearly 12 million immigrants arrived in the United States through Ellis Island.

• The Pull to America

  • Ellis Island, in Upper New York Bay, was the gateway for more than 12 million immigrants to the United States as the nation's busiest immigrant inspection station from 1892 until 1954.
  • In the 35 years before Ellis Island opened, more than eight million immigrants arriving in New York City had been processed by New York State officials at Castle Garden Immigration Depot in Lower Manhattan, just across the bay.
  • The federal government assumed control of immigration on April 18, 1890, and Congress appropriated $75,000 to construct America's first federal immigration station on Ellis Island.
  • Artesian wells were dug, and landfill was hauled in from incoming ships' ballast and from construction of New York City's subway tunnels, which doubled the size of Ellis Island to more than six acres.

• Americanization and Pluralism

• Social Trends

  • Most came through the port of New York City, and from 1892, through the immigration station on Ellis Island, but various ethnic groups settled in different locations.

• Frances Willard and the Women's Christian Temperance Union

  • Between 1900 and 1920, much of their budget was given to their center on Ellis Island, which helped to start the Americanization process.

• Rhode Island

  • Rhode Island was formed as an English colony by Roger Williams and others fleeing prosecution from Puritans.
  • Williams named the other islands in the Narragansett Bay after virtues: Patience Island, Prudence Island, and Hope Island.
  • In 1637, Hutchinson also purchased land on Aquidneck Island from the American Indians, settling in Pocasset, now known as Portsmouth, Rhode Island.
  • During King Philip's War (1675–1676), both sides regularly violated Rhode Island's neutrality.
  • Discuss the founding of the Rhode Island Colony and Providence Plantations

• Leapfrogging to Tokyo

  • Leapfrogging originated from island hopping - a strategy, with which leapfrogging is sometimes misleadingly confused.
  • Island hopping entailed taking over an island and establishing a military base there.
  • The base was in turn used as a launching point for the attack and takeover of another island.
  • The result of island hopping was a chain of established bases while the result of leapfrogging was subduing certain strategically important islands while destroying military bases on other islands and thus isolating them in the process.
  • Forces led by Admiral Chester Nimitz, with a smaller land force and larger fleet, would advance north towards the island and capture the Gilbert and Marshall Islands and the Marianas, going generally in the direction of the Bonin Islands.

• The Guadalcanal Campaign

  • To further those goals, Japanese forces captured the Philippines, Thailand, Malaya, Singapore, Burma, the Dutch East Indies, Wake Island, Gilbert Islands, New Britain and Guam.
  • The Allies chose the Solomon Islands (a protectorate of the United Kingdom), specifically the southern Solomon Islands of Guadalcanal, Tulagi and Florida Island, as the first target.
  • By August 1942, the Japanese had about 900 naval troops on Tulagi and nearby islands and 2,800 personnel on Guadalcanal.
  • On August 7, 1942, Allied forces, predominantly American, landed on the islands of Guadalcanal, Tulagi, and Florida in the southern Solomon Islands, with the objective of denying their use by the Japanese to threaten the supply and communication routes between the U.S., Australia, and New Zealand.
  • Army's XIV Corps, conceding the island to the Allies.

• The Dorr Rebellion

  • The Dorr Rebellion in Rhode Island was an uprising of men who wanted to see greater, faster expansion of white male suffrage.
  • Under Rhode Island's charter, only white male landowners could vote.
  • By 1841, Rhode Island was one of the few states without universal suffrage for white men.
  • A polemic from Rhode Island (1844) in support of the Dorrite cause.
  • Describe the circumstances surrounding the Dorr Rebellion and its effect on the Rhode Island constitution

• The Exploration of Christopher Columbus

  • While securing provisions from the island of La Gomera, Columbus received word that three Portuguese caravels had been seen hovering near the island of El Hierro, with the supposed intention of capturing him.
  • No one knows which modern day island in the Bahamas or Turks and Caicos this name corresponds to, but the prime candidates are Samana Cay, Plana Cays, Grand Turk, or San Salvador Island.
  • He then sailed to the island of Madeira and spent time with the Portuguese captain, João Gonçalves da Câmara, before sailing to the Canary Islands and Cape Verde.
  • Columbus landed on the south coast of the island of Trinidad on July 31, 1498.
  • On June 15, they landed at Carbet, on the island of Martinique (Martinica).