... of them came from Northern Italy. Poverty was a big reason on why Italian emigrated from Italy and came to the United States. Political hardship and being able to get enough money to buy more land was also a great pull factor. About 80% of the Italians that emigrated from Italy were big on agriculture and had known it their whole lives. American workers would ... Immigration started to drop and slow down it was around 1920 and more than 4 million Italians emigrated to the United States from Italy. The Italians came to the US by ships and the ships would always be packed to the gills. Th...

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