Today we start talking about immigrants in the 1870's most immigrants traveled by steam ship most traveled in the lower decks; they also had to sleep in lice infected beds. Next is Ellis Island, about 20% of them got detained on arrival. If anyone had any diseases they were sent home, an estimated 17 million immigrants. When immigrant of one race gathered together they formed like a small city. In 1897 congress passed a bill stating that they had to pass a literacy test.
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