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Bernard Twymon March 21, 2012

=**Ellis Land**=


 * The Ellis Island is used as a museum and it has a Wall of Fame of 200,000 immigrants names engraved on it.
 * Because it was a gateway to the immigrants and to the United States as the nation's busiest immigrant inspection station from 1892 until 1954.
 * They recieved 12 million between 1892-1954.
 * I think that maybe 1 or 2 of my ancestors traveled through Ellis Island.
 * One of the main reasons is that the New World presented people with an opportunity to earn a decent living and perhaps even to become wealthy.
 * The second reason was to acquire land, most settlers were given free land or land at low cost. Land not only gave settlers feelings of independence, it also provided them with status and allowed them certain rights in the community, including voting.
 * The third reason is because of religion, some settlers wished to have the chance to worship freely while others came to America to escape religious persecutions. Some of these groups were the Puritans, Quakers, Roman Catholics, Huguenots, and Jews.