A | B |
advice | an opinion about what should be done |
advised | gave advice to; offered an opinion |
circumstances | conditions that accompany an act or event |
elbow | to push with the elbow; make your way by pushing |
hustled | hurried along |
immigrants | people who come into a country or region to live |
luxury | something pleasant but not necessary |
newcomer | a person who has just come or who came not long ago |
peddler | a person who travels about selling things carried in a pack or in a truck, wagon, or cart |
crannies | small, narrow openings; cracks; crevices |
greenhorn | a person without training or experience |
pushcarts | light carts pushed by hand |
Ellis Island | small island in the harbor of New York, just south of Manhattan. From 1891 to 1943 it housed reception facilities for new immigrants. |
immigration | act of coming into a country or region to live |
Registry Room | place on Ellis Island in which registration of new immigrants took place |