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📌 Migrants left Eastern and Southern Europe as well as Western and Northern Europe to seek a new life in the United States.
The passenger categories were:
Passengers in steerage experienced overcrowded and unsanitary conditions, with no liberty and no privacy.
The reasons mentioned include:
Further detail
Persecution, poverty and disease → migrants seek a new life
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At Ellis Island, ferries and ships carried migrants and passengers who boarded, landed, disembarked and waited to be processed.
Health officers and police officers looked for signs of disease and separated healthy and sick passengers.
Further detail
1. Why did many migrants leave Europe for the United States?
2. Which passengers typically experienced the most overcrowded and unsanitary conditions during the voyage?
3. How were passengers grouped according to their accommodations on the ship?
From which European regions did migrants leave for the United States?
Eastern, Southern, Western, and Northern Europe.
How long did the journey to the United States take for migrants?
Between 1 day and 2 weeks.
How were passengers divided on ships to the United States?
Into first and second class, steerage, and state rooms.
Where did some passengers share sleeping compartments on the ship?
At the bottom of the ship.
What conditions did steerage passengers experience during the journey?
Overcrowded and unsanitary conditions with no liberty or privacy.
What were some reasons migrants left Europe for the United States?
Poverty, diseases, persecution, execution, or hopes for wealth, health, class advancement, a new wife, or a new life.
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