1. USA Immigration By Daniel Doughty and Joshua Van Der Merwe!

2. There was little Italian emigration to the USA before the 1870s. Italy was now one of the most overcrowded countries in Europe and many began to consider the possibility of leaving Italy to escape low wages and high taxes. From 1890 to 1900, 655,888 arrived in the United States, of whom two-thirds were men. Most Italians found unskilled work in America's cities. There were large colonies in New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Baltimore and Detroit. The Italians took a lot of unskilled work off the Irish because they were willing to work long hours for low wages.

3. The Italians immigrated in numbers, around 4,200,000 moved to America, only Germany and Ireland had more people immigrate to America. By the second world war there were more Italians living in New York city than in Rome. An investigation carried out in 1978 revealed that since 1820 over 5,294,000 people emigrated to the United States from Italy. This meant that 10.9 per cent of the total foreign immigration were Italians during.

4. When Christopher Columbus set foot on American soil in 1492, he launched a flood of migration that is still in motion, and that transformed the continent completely. Although Italy as a unified nation did not exist until 1861, the Italian peninsula has sent millions of its people to the shores of North America. These new arrivals thought of themselves as Neapolitans, Sicilians, Calabrians, or Syracuseans. They might not have understood each other’s dialects, but on arrival in the United States they became Italian Americans. By the turn of the 20th century, they would be ready to change the continent once more. Columbus