Culture 10
Exercise
3
Correct the errors in the sentences.
Solution
- Ellis Island became an immigration station in 1892.
- Some people estimate that nearly 40% of all US citizens today have at least one relative who came through Ellis Island.
- The earliest immigrants to America came mainly from northern and western Europe.
- When the First World War began in 1914, immigration slowed down as anti-immigrant feelings grew.
- Ellis Island is only a short ferry ride from Manhattan.