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How has Ellis Island helped shape the population of the United States?

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When Ellis Island opened, a great change was taking place in U.S. immigration. Fewer arrivals were coming from northern and western Europe—Germany, Ireland, Britain and the Scandinavian countries—as more and more immigrants poured in from southern and eastern Europe. Some fled poverty. Others, such as eastern European Jews, fled religious persecution. All sought the relative safety and prosperity for which the country was known.

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  • Ellis Island brought in new immigrants from Ireland, and Poland and expanded the diversity of people in New York and slowly the US as they spread to create societies elsewhere.
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