Historical Context
Push & Pull
Life in America
Professions
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100
The religion of many Italian immigrants.
What is Catholicism
100
There region of Italy were most immigrants were from.
What is Southern Italy?
100
Over time, more and more immigrants moved into these large neighborhoods full of Italian-Americans.
What is Little Italy?
100
Italian immigrant's main area of trade.
What is citrus fruits?
100
GROUP Baby don't hurt me, don't hurt me, no more.
What is love?
200
Italian immigrants were often stereotyped as terrorists because of these organized bodies of criminals who operated back in Sicily.
What is The Mafia?
200
After this major event, the US was in desperate need of cheap labors.
What is The Civil War?
200
These were sometimes changed when immigrants were entered into the registry book in Ellis Island.
What are names?
200
Probably the best contribution from the Italians to modern American culture.
What is cuisine/food/pizza?
200
Italy was divided into these social classes
What are strata?
300
The four decades of mass Italian Immigration
What is 1880-1920
300
This happened in Italy between 1861 and 1901, increasing competition for success.
What is population spike?
300
The region of the US where most Italians immigrated to.
What is Northeastern US?
300
A professional labor broker, employers came to him to find workers, and job seekers came to him to find work.
What is a padrone?
300
The thing that Congress passed which limited Italian immigration.
What is The Immigration Act of 1924 or the Emergency Quota Act of 1921?
400
GROUP The age when Italian children started working.
What is 8 or 9?
400
GROUP DD A fee paid to the for protection, or at least the guarantee of no aggression from the Mafia.
What is pizzo?
400
Which state has the highest population of Italian-Americans.
What is Rhode Island?
400
GROUP The state where immigrants bought a cheap swampy plot of land and constructed ditches and drainage canals to make the land fertile.
What is Louisiana (Independence)?
400
The percentage of U.S. immigration that came from Southern Italy.
What is 75%?
500
The old Italian proverb about leaving Italy to seek success elsewhere.
What is "He who leaves succeeds"?
500
The country who set up high tariffs on Italian grape growers.
What is France?
500
Italian-Americans have the highest percentage of this among all U.S. immigrants, which correlates to their success.
What is home ownership?
500
GROUP The Famous Italian-American scientist who was first person to achieve a nuclear chain reaction.
Who is Enrico Fermi?
500
GROUP The percentage of Italians sent back to Italy, giving Ellis Island the nickname L’Isola dell Lagrime—the Island of Tears.
What is <2%?
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