This island, for Many Americans is the place where their , american story began. A lot of people do not know about ellis island before this time. I am going to talk about ellis island itself. Size, we are 27 acres in but originally it was three acres. A small island in the middle of the harbor that barely came above sea level and highside. T high tide. For most of its life, it was a military installation, and the the world of 1812, and as a storage depot. Somewhere around 1890 it was decided it would be the place of the first building specifically constructed for the processing of emigrants. They did construct that between 1890 and 1892. This is not the first Processing Center. It is the second. The first one burned to the ground during a furnace fire. The federal government decided they needed to build something more permanent, something that would reflect the grandeur, so the structure you see here is andt between 1898 and 1900 it opened in december of 1900. Its a beautiful building
Bills which rolled back the income tax increases that were passed during world war i. And the leading social movements on the left, labor unions and the socialist party, both lost members during the war. In fact, the socialist party was never really a factor in american politics again after the 1920 election. And people on the left, whether people we consider to be liberals, former progressives or radicals were all on the offensive during the 1920s. The most popular president in the 1920s, Calvin Coolidge who took office in 1923, when harding died of a heart attack and then was reelected by a landslide in 1924 famously said in the mid1920s, the business of america is business. It was a prosperous time for a lot of americans, though certainly not all. Stock prices were fairly high. Wages were either stable or going up, depending on what occupation you were in. Farmers are not doing as well as theyve done during world war i when farm prices went really high as they often do in wars but n
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