B. Immigrants left Ellis Island within hours; they often remained in Angel Island for weeks.
Immigrants in Angel Island came from Asian countries, specifically, China, Japan, Russia, and South Asia. Upon arriving in Angel Island, they have to undergo medical examination and interrogation process.
The length of time an immigrant spend on Angel Island varies on the length of his or her interrogation process. Some immigrants produce false paperwork, which lengthened their interrogation process because the authenticity of said paperwork must be verified before they can be granted entry to the United States.
His theories were:
Overproduction
Descent of Modification
Variation and
Adaption
Stephen Douglass was a Democrat elected to the U.S. Senate in 1858. Douglas defeated Abraham Lincoln to obtain his Senate seat. He was a supporter of the idea of popular sovereignty, the belief that the settlers in newly admitted territories should determine whether the area would be slave or free. Douglass received the Democratic nomination for president in 1860. Douglass support of popular sovereignty led to the splintering of the Democratic Party into Northern and Southern factions. Northerners opposed secession while Southerners supported it. The splintering of the party led to their defeat and the election of the Republican Abraham Lincoln in 1860.
The settlement house movement’s main objective was to
establish settlement house for the poor in urban areas. In this time, the middle-class volunteer settlement
workers will live in the area sharing knowledge and culture to alleviate the
poverty. This movement began in Britain in 1884 and in 1889, Jane Addams, and
Ellen Gates Starr founded the most famous settlement house in US.
It was created in order to for a stronger federal government
