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How Many Greeks
Where Did They Settle
Jobs
Special Contributions
Prejudice
100
Up until this decade, Greek immigration was very limited.
What is the 1880s?
100
Where they originally settled.
What is in urban areas?
100
What jobs the first Greek Americans were drawn to.
What is low wage jobs such as factory laborers, peddlers, busboys, etc?
100
The main contributions of Greeks.
What is academia, film, literature, music, journalism and, most notably, politics?
100
The type of prejudice Greeks was similar to.
What is migrant workers today, mostly from Mexico?
200
During these years the largest waves came.
What is 1900s to 1920s?
200
The city that is still the largest home for Greeks.
What is New York City?
200
The types of jobs they had as they became more established in America.
What is owning small businesses including flower shops, groceries, and restaurants?
200
Some of the famous Greek American politicians.
Who is former vice president Spiro Agnew, Massachusetts governor Michael Dukakis and former Senator Paul Tsongas?
200
The fear of Americans towards Greeks.
What is the fear of losing their job to an immigrant?
300
This gender mostly came to the United States.
What is young males?
300
The places where Greeks tended to settle.
What is cities?
300
The type of jobs third and fourth generation immigrants would pursue.
What is highly professional jobs in the medical fields, dentistry, law and academia?
300
The most well-known Greek American active in the political spectrum today.
Who is George Stephanopoulos, a political commentator as well as a former advisor to Bill Clinton?
300
Why Americans had a fear of losing their jobs.
What is because most of the Greek immigrants were young men looking for a job?
400
The reason why young males came.
What is to make a fortune and then return to their native Greece?
400
The reason why Greeks were attracted to Salt Lake City.
What is mining and railroad work?
400
The type of jobs Greeks sometimes got "trained" for.
What is blue collar positions such as barbers?
400
The type of impact on food.
What is huge?
400
Why they had a reputation of being "dirty".
What is because they were poor and looking for a better life, they shared apartments/space and lived sparsely?
500
This number is the number of Greeks who came in the Great Wave.
What is approximately 450,000?
500
The heaviest early concentration on the Pacific Coast.
What is San Francisco?
500
How they are much like todays immigrants.
What is they would stand on street corners looking for work and had alliances with friends for tips of where the jobs were?
500
The number of diners Greeks opened.
What is 600?
500
How old movies and music portrayed young men.
What is jolly but dim witted?