Red Line 4, Coursebook

18 e i ghteen c US immigration 1626 Dutch immigrants founded New Amsterdam. 1630 The Dutch bought Little Oyster Island from Native Americans. 1664 After the English had taken New Amsterdam from the Dutch, they named it New York. 1785 Samuel Ellis bought Little Oyster Island. He named it Ellis Island. 1820 Large numbers of immigrants began to sail to New York. They landed at Manhattan. 1845 A terrible famine in Ireland started and millions of poor and hungry Irish people left on ships to New York. The journey was awful and many were seasick. Some hadn’t eaten for days when they arrived. 1892 They closed the immigration station in Manhattan and opened one on Ellis Island. The first immigrant was a young Irish girl. 1907 Sick people were no longer allowed to enter the US. The officials sent them back to Europe. 1921 The US started quotas for immigrants from Eastern Europe. They set a limit for the number of immigrants from each country. A Polish woman had a baby on a ship. When she landed, the Polish quotas had just run out. The officials said, “You can stay, but not your baby.” Suddenly one man had an idea. “The ship was late,” he said, “and the baby was early. So the baby is American.” 1954 The Ellis Island immigration station closed. The 1960s The journey for some immigrants got easier. Planes brought them to airports in the US. Today It is still hard to immigrate into the US. Most people who do it come from Mexico, India and China. On Ellis Island there is now a museum about immigration. 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 1600 1650 1700 1800 1825 1850 Between 1892 and 1954 more than twelve million immigrants landed at Ellis Island, close to the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor. Many of them came to America to escape from poverty, war and oppression in Europe. The lucky ones went from the island to a new life in America. 1 The journey to the US When did these things happen? Complete the sentences. Example: In 1892 they closed the immigration station in Manhattan. 1. … the Dutch founded … 2. … the English took the city and named it … 3. … Samuel Ellis gave … a new name: … 4. … Irish immigrants came because … 5. … they opened … on … 6. … the officials started to send … 7. … they started quotas … 8. … immigrants started to fly to … Say the years like this: In 1626: in sixteen twenty-six In 1990: in nineteen ninety In 2008: in two thousand and eight ➝ WB 7, 1 1 Check-in Language 2 Talkwise Text Wordwise Check-out Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verl gs öbv