ebooks The Large Catechism of Dr. Martin Luther; 1529: The Annotated Luther; Study Edition by Martin Luther in History

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*Includes pictures *Includes accounts of Ellis Island written by immigrants *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of contents “So; anyhow; we had to get off of the ship; and we were put on a tender; which took us across to Ellis Island. And when I saw Ellis Island; it's a great big place; I wondered what we were going to do in there. And we all had to get out of the tender; and then into this; and gather your bags in there; and the place was crowded with people and talking; and crying; people were crying. And we passed; go through some of the halls there; and tried to remember that the halls; big halls; big open spaces there; and there was bars; and there was people behind these bars; and they were talking different languages; and I was scared to death. I thought I was in jail." - Mary Mullins; an Irish immigrant By the middle of the 19th century; New York City’s population surpassed the unfathomable number of 1 million people; despite its obvious lack of space. This was mostly due to the fact that so many immigrants heading to America naturally landed in New York Harbor; well before the federal government set up an official immigration system on Ellis Island. At first; the city itself set up its own immigration registration center in Castle Garden near the site of the original Fort Amsterdam; and naturally; many of these immigrants; who were arriving with little more than the clothes on their back; didn’t travel far and thus remained in New York. Of course; the addition of so many immigrants and others with less money put strains on the quality of life. Between 1862 and 1872; the number of tenements had risen from 12;000 to 20;000; the number of tenement residents grew from 380;000 to 600;000. One notorious tenement on the East River; Gotham Court; housed 700 people on a 20-by-200-foot lot. Another on the West Side was home; incredibly; to 3;000 residents; who made use of hundreds of privies dug into a fifteen-foot-wide inner court. Squalid; dark; crowded; and dangerous; tenement living created dreadful health and social conditions. It would take the efforts of reformers such as Jacob Riis; who documented the hellishness of tenements with shocking photographs in How the Other Half Lives; to change the way such buildings were constructed. On New Year’s Day 1892; a young Irish girl named Annie Moore stepped off the steamship Nevada and landed on a tiny island that once held a naval fort. As she made her way through the large building on that island; Annie was processed as the first immigrant to come to America through Ellis Island. Like so many immigrants before her; she and her family settled in an Irish neighborhood in the city; and she would live out the rest of her days there. Thanks to the opening of Ellis Island near the end of the 19th century; immigration into New York City exploded; and the city’s population nearly doubled in a decade. By the 1900s; 2 million people considered themselves New Yorkers; and Ellis Island would be responsible not just for that but for much of the influx of immigrants into the nation as a whole over the next half a century. To this day; about a third of the Big Apple’s population is comprised of immigrants today; making it one of the most diverse cities in the world. Ellis Island: The History and Legacy of America’s Most Famous Immigration Gateway analyzes the history of Ellis Island and its integral impact on American history. Along with pictures of important people; places; and events; you will learn about Ellis Island like never before; in no time at all.