Sample Response: As immigrants tried new foods, got to know new neighborhoods, met new people, and became familiar with the language, they adapted to US culture. That made them feel like they fit in with both worlds: their old culture and their new home.
Newcomers to the United States were mainly immigrants who escaped the Old World due to<em> famine, drought and religious persecution. </em>These were people who were trying to escape the political and economic oppression from their own nations and were hoping to find opportunities. The newcomers were eager to start a new lifestyle in hopes of reformation. People went to America in order to gain their own lands to cultivate and this made them feel like they belonged to their new home.
Explanation:
The "Ellis Island" is a historical island that served as an<em> immigration station</em> in <em>1892. </em>It is said that most of the immigrants in the earlier year came from the southern and eastern part of Europe, rather than the northern and western areas.
