Detainees
Inspections (Legal/Medical)
Numbers/Stats
The Arrival
Employees at Ellis Island
100

This is how long their physical took?

What is 6 seconds?

100

The medical inspection was this long.

What is 6 seconds?

100

This many people were sent back for diseases and legal disabilities.

What is 20,000?

100

These transportation devices were crowded and dirty.

What are ships?

100

This person used a button hook at Ellis Island.

Who is a medical inspector/doctor?

200

This is how many years Ellis Island was a detention center?

What is 30 years?

200

This tool was used to check for trachoma.

What is the buttonhook?


200

This many people crowded the ships.

What is 3,000?

200

This island was where European immigrants came for inspection.

What is Ellis Island?

200

This person inspected belongings.

Who is the baggage room attendant?

300

This is how many questions were asked during an Interview.

How many is 29 Questions?

300

This would happen if your answer was different from your manifest.

What is being detained?

300

This percent of the people actually went to Ellis Island.

What is 75%?

300

The first thing immigrants saw in the harbor.

What is the Statue of Liberty?

300

Immigrants could exchange foreign money for American money with this attendant.

Who is the post office attendant?

400

Ellis Island sent this number of Immigrants back.

How many is 120,000?

400

The legal inspectors asked you this many questions.

What is 29?

400

This many babies were born on Ellis Island.

What is 355?

400

Thi calss of passengers might wait for days to get on the ferryboat.

What are third class passengers?

400

This person asked questions about your personal life in the Grand Hall.

Who is the legal inspector?

500

This is the Symbol for insanity.

What is Circled X?

500
This would happen if someone was proven medically dangerous to the public.

Why are their clothes being marked?

500

This is the highest amount of people on Ellis Island for one day.

What is 11,747?

500

The people that board the ship to look for diseases are.

What are health officers?

500

This person helps foreign language-speaking immigrants communicate with english speaking employees. 

Who is an interpreter?