Question

Based on this immigrant’s description, what did most immigrants worry about most?

Answer 1

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Answer 2

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Answer 3

At a quarter to ten we steamed for Ellis Island. We were then marched to another ferry-boat, and expected to be transported somewhere else, but this second vessel was simply a floating waiting-room. We were crushed and almost suffocated upon it. A hot sun beat upon its wooden roof; the windows in the sides were fixed; we could not move an inch from the places where we were awkwardly standing, for the boxes and baskets were so thick about our feet; babies kept crying sadly, and irritated emigrants swore at the sound of them. All were thinking-"Shall I get through?"

-from With Poor Immigrants to America
by Stephan Graham