Ellis Island: Through America’s Gateway - A Virtual Tour (SOL USII. 3b)

Click on the following link and answer the questions:

 "An Interactive Tour of Ellis Island"

First Stop: The Arrival

1.   What percentage of people in America can trace their ancestry back to Ellis Island?

2.   This is how many people?

3.   Where were new immigrants taken once they arrived in New York Harbor?

4.   Who was the first immigrant to come through Ellis Island?

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5.   If you were an immigrant traveling in first or second class how were you treated?

6.   On April 17, 1907, how many immigrants were processed? 

7.   What if you were an unaccompanied child under 16 years of age?

8.   On September 27^th, 1907 1,000 English and Irish girls arrived at Ellis Island on the steamship Baltic.  What did USpapers refer to them as?

Second Stop: The Baggage Room

 9.  Where did immigrants leave their bags?

 10.  After dropping off their bags, where was their next destination?

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 11.  How many babies were actually born on Ellis Island?

 12.  What ethnic group, more than any other entered Ellis Island?

Third Stop:  Stairway to the Great Hall

13.   What was the 6 second medical exam?  What happened if you did not pass this test?

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14.   What does and “X” mean?

15.   What does the CT symbol mean?

16.   How about Sc?

Fourth Stop:  Medical Exam

17.   After 1917, what was the main purpose of the medical exam?

18.   What happened if your disease was curable?

19.   What if you had an incurable disease?

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20.   How many medical buildings were on Ellis Island?

21.   What is trachoma?

22.   What happened to anyone with a chalk mark on their coat?

23.   What did the exam require a person to do?

24.   What did a two year old child have to show she/he could do during the medical exam?

Fifth Stop:  The Great Hall:

25.   How long did the entire process on Ellis Island take?

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26.   The dining hall could seat up to how many?

27.   What was on the menu?

28.   What did charitable societies do for the children of people who were detained?

6^th Stop:  Legal Inspection

29.   What did you have to do to prove you were legally OK to come to America?

30.   What is a literacy test?

31.   Who did inspectors reject?

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32.   From what country is this passport?

7^th Stop: Money Exchange

33.   How much money did you have to have in order to enter America?

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34.   Why did charitable societies offer immigrants clothes?

8^th Stop:  The Journey’s End

35.   What did staff referred to the end of Ellis Island? 

36.   Why did they call it this?

37. What two places did immigrants mainly settle?

 Now, go to the next website …It is the Ellis Island Website.  Type in your name or other members of your family (Last name)   Could your family have come through Ellis Island? http://www.ellisisland.org/