Angel Island
My wikipedia Trail this week began with Angel Island. I have never actually been to this island, so I thought it would be interesting to learn a little more about it because of our reading this week. I never knew that it was used as an immigration station to investigate Chinese immigrants who had been denied access due to the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, which I actually just learned about in my history class. The purpose of this station was to prove that the immigrant had a husband or father who was a legal U.S. citizen in order to not be deported.
Angel Island Immigration Station
This article gave me some of the same information that the previous one did. One thing I did I did find interesting about this article was that Angel Island was often referred to as the "Ellis Island of the West". The only difference between the two was that Angel Island housed mainly Asian immigrants, while Ellis island dealt with European Immigrants.
Ellis Island
After learning about Angel Island, I decided to learn more about the largest Immigration Station in the United States, Ellis Island. This station operated from 1892 until 1954 and around 12 million immigrants passed through the island on their way to citizenship. The island was made part of the Statue of Liberty Monument in 1965, and has hosted a museum of immigration since 1990.
Statue of Liberty
The Statue of Liberty was a gift given by the people of France to the people of United States in October of 1886. It was designed by French Sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi and built by Gustave Eiffel, which I found really interesting because he was obviously responsible for building the world-famous Eiffel Tower in Paris as well.
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