Answer:
The correct answer is B. being allowed into America
Step-by-step explanation:
Got it correct on edge.
Here is the excerpt:
"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"