Millions of immigrants came to America between the 1800s and 1920s. Many settled in New York City, arriving at Ellis Island and seeing the Statue of Liberty. Early immigrants were mostly English, Irish and Scottish upper class people, but later waves brought larger numbers of Polish, Italian, Jewish and other Southern and Eastern Europeans. Today, New York City is incredibly diverse with many different ethnic communities, a result of massive immigration over the centuries that helped shape America.

1. Immigration
Photo walk slide show
By Tiffany Mitchell
Spring 2017, Community Studies

2. Reason why I picked this topic:
 I picked immigration not only because of how interesting it truly is to read
about how people came over from all across the world to America but,
because of how different it is.
 Every story we’d read about was always different because each traveler had
their own story.
 Everyone did not always end up with the “American Dream.”
 Without this history the world today would not be the same.

3. Immigration by the millions
This graph shows the millions of people who
come into America and, the years that they
came in.

4. This was the first thing immigrates saw
coming into the Hudson Bay, The Statue of
Liberty. That’s also me in the photo when I
went to NYC.

5. This is the first stop people would go
through, Ellis Island.

6. Origin on Ellis Island:
 “Samuel Ellis became the island's private owner in the 1770s, the island had
been called Kioshk, Oyster, Dyre, Bucking and Anderson's Island. In this way,
Ellis Island developed from a sandy island that barely rose above the high tide
mark, into a hanging site for pirates, a harbor fort, ammunition and ordinance
depot named Fort Gibson, and finally into an immigration station.”(1)
 “Through the years, this gateway to the new world was enlarged from its
original 3.3 acres to 27.5 acres mostly by landfill obtained from ship ballast
and possibly excess earth from the construction of the New York City subway
system.”(1)

7. This is the view from the Statue of Liberty,
New York City. This is where thousands of
immigrates settled.

8. Thousands of people came to live in America. Many people settled in New York.
These people came from all over the world. The first wave of immigrates were
mostly English, Irish and Scotch. These were upper class people. The English
mostly dominated New York. Fortunately, New York is full of diversity.

9. Second wave of immigrates.
This is a photo from walking the streets of
New York City.
The second wave of immigrates came in
about 1820. This happened because of the
Potato famine mostly. More Irish people came
through New York City. Along with African
Americans and Germans.

10. “
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Third Wave of Immigrates:
Took place in 1880-1920’s
This was the population of Southern and Eastern Europe. Which increased the
numbers of Polish, Jewish, Italian and Greek.

11. Racial Inferiority:
 A new argument with the term Race began.
 Race wasn’t meant by “the color of your skin”, but rather your Ethnicity or
nationality.
 They not only believed that genetics could pass on to one another but, so can
criminality, poverty, illiteracy, and all social behavior. This probably started
the whole race issues.

12. Diversity of New York City (2)

13. Bus Tour
If you ever go to New York City, take a bus
tour. You will either get the most
entertaining and interesting information
about New York. You will learn about the
types of people living there and the different
types of buildings.

14. Night Bus Tour
The city that never sleeps. New York City has
so many buildings closely together that at
night, it looks like it is still night time.
There is even a lot of people out and about in
the middle of the night!

15. New York City, Divided into different
worlds; with different people.
Brooklyn Bridge Us on the bridge

16. Overall experience:
 New York City is an eye opener to anyone who isn’t from there.
 There are so many people from different places there!
 Immigration helped form America today.
 This truly was an eye opener for me because, you see a whole different world
by going to a different city.
 This has helped me learn more about the different types of communities
there are around me.

17. Works Cited
 1. http://www.libertyellisfoundation.org/ellis-island-history
http://www1.nyc.gov/site/planning/data-maps/nyc-population/newest-new-
yorkers-2013.page