The United States has long been known as the melting pot of the world. Many nationalities have influenced the United States. The Italian Americans are no exception. The Italians came to America to work hard with humble beginnings, to find food and get some kind of financial security. They came for the “American Dream”. “They were told that they would find streets paved with gold, only to arrive and realize they had to dig the streets” (Nigro pg 1). But once they arrived they were greeted with great dislike. In a lot for cases they fell into worse conditions than they had left.
In the early 1800’s, there were not very many Italians immigrating to the United States, but at the same time Italy was becoming very overcrowded. America was becoming known as “the land of opportunity”. “So by 1930, more than 4.5 million Italians had entered the United States” (Nigro pg 10). As more and more Italians immigrated to the United States, the hostility and displeasure towards them grew......
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