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Italian immigration



Between 1880 and 1920 four million Italian immigrants traveled the Atlantic to the United States. These Italians came in search of the “ American Dream”. By the 19 century, some ambitious northern immigrated to the United States. In 1900 even the poorer more conservative Southern were making the tour. By the beginning of World War 1, Italy was losing over 5000,000 people per year due to immigration








For centuries in Italy, the Italian peninsula was divided into hatred states. There was so much ruling going on that so many poor Italians had almost no opportunity to improve their lives. The Italians in Southern Italy suffered more hard times than those in the North, because the North had industries. North experienced less poverty, discrimination, and agricultural problems than those in the South. Though through all the problems the Italian population was blooming and overcrowding and was becoming more ad more of a problem for everyone in Italy..