Today, February 18, 1901 (December 30, 1900), the first decade of the century, immigration flooded into the United States. Every ship to the United States was filled with the first year of the twentieth century, the beginning of the unparalleled ten years in American history, at least in one way unparalleled in the past or future. This was the top ten years of immigration into the United States, known as the peak of the largest wave of immigration in history. Poor, hungry, oppressed ¨C thousands of people left south-eastern Europe from Russia, Poland, Austria, Hungary, the Balkans, Italy... Every year about 700,000 to 900,000 people entered the United States through Ellis Island, and from 1892 to 1943 the island was the main port of immigration to the United States. For millions of Americans, Ell