The great wave of imigration

Italian Immigrants

Life in america

the Italians had a great sense of family but some times it inter-feared with schooling

Some times american people would look down on them like a lesser people in there society

They almost immediately found jobs usually low paying low skill ones

Journy

They ushaly where almost out of ellis island in days but sometimes people where sent home

Italy was poor so many Italians wanted to leave Italy to make it rich in america

It was 2 weeks of strait voyage filled with singing and games

The where usually in the worst part of the boat only aloud to come up sometimes

Artifacts

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This is an accordion it shows how the Italians had a good sense of culture

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this is a picture of a family this shows how connected Italians where with each other

Jewish immigrants

Journey

They where forced out of Russia by angry mobs because Jews where being scapegoated

They where second class passengers who could do what they wanted on the ship and go on the deck at any moment they so chose

The usually spent a day on elis island and where rarely sent home

Life in america

They ran tons of small businesses and stores

They couldn't get certain jobs because they where Jewish

They where surprise by the fact they could easily get schooling and most young people went to collage

Artifacts

most women sowed and nit for money

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