Immigration and Industrialization Timeline

By BlakeACriswell

  • The Great Oklahoma Land Race

    The Great Oklahoma Land Race
    Men and women rushed to claim homesteads or to purchase lots in one of the many new towns that sprang into existence overnight. An estimated eleven thousand agricultural homesteads were claimed.

  • Ellis Island Opens to Process Immigrants

    Ellis Island Opens to Process Immigrants
    Annie Moore, a teenage girl from Ireland, accompanied by her two younger brothers, made history as the very first immigrant to be processed at Ellis Island.

  • Angel Island Opens to Process Immigrants

    Angel Island Opens to Process Immigrants
    an estimated 500,000 immigrants from 80 countries—including Australia, New Zealand, Russia, Mexico, Canada, and Central and South America—were processed through Angel Island. The great majority came from China or other Asian countries, including Japan, Hawaii, the Pacific Islands, Korea and Vietnam.