Why Italy
Italian history question?
what where Italians doing 3 years after coming to America?
Public Comments
- Working in factories, running restaurants, running businesses.
- Well, the first settlers were Spanish, weren't they? It was only Colombo Christopho, who was an Italian. If your question is about the Italian immigration to America on the turn of the twentieth century then most them had to work very hard indeed in industry to secure livelihood for their posterity. But the infamous Sacco & Vanzetti case called the attention of the public to the fact that in America, which is originally a country of immigrants, immigrants were accepted less and less friendly until there was a true resentment against the foreigners before the 1920s. It was changed in later years, mainly after WW II and the Hungarian uprising in 1956 which was supressed by the Soviet Red Army. At that time many Hungarians immigrated to America along with many other nationals from Europe. But the immigration of Italians to America has really a long history.
- probably choosing a godfather.
- most immigrants, not just Italians but my answer will apply to them, lived in their ethnic slum as you may have it in the city which they arrived in, which in Italians case would have been New York City. They found work in low-paying, long-working hours factories and most of their children were doing the same thing. Before reforms were passed in order to prevent that kind of standard of living, that's the way that all immigrants and urban poor lived.
