CH 7

Chapter 7

·      Single individuals immigrated from Europe for the economic opportunity

·      Immigrants from Russia, Ireland, Italy, and Poland were use to living in urbanized cities. 

·      1907, Europeans had four main ports for immigrants which where, Naples, Bremen, Liverpool, and Hamburg.

·      The year of July 1, 1906- June 30, 1907 more then a million and a quarter immigrants entered the States.

·      Liverpool, immigrants were housed, fed, and medically examined before coming to the United States. (Waiting for their ship)

·      Other immigrants who deported from Germane, but were non-Germans had to go through a double examination.  This was because in Hamburg immigrants had a disease that killed over nine thousand humans.

·       The 20^th century the immigrant ships were cleaner and were also run better, the immigrants also had privacy in the ship, However, not all ships were up to date, Ships who deported from the French, Italy, and Germany, had the horrible ships, their passengers faced the worst conditions.

·      The price of tickets went down around the time of war, it was 10 dollars to deport from Liverpool.

·      The highest peak of immigrants coming to the United States, 1901-10, 1.5 million immigrants come in, 6.5 from all over Europe, 2 million from Italy.

·      Some Italians did not come to the United States some went to Argentina and Brazil.  

·      Italians work skills were artisans and glassblowers.

·      Philip Mazzie(1730-1816) physician and scholar who was told by Benjamin Franklin to go to Virginia, start an Italian agricultural products: silk culture, wine grapes, and olives.

·      Italian musicians, Lorenzo de Ponte, Supervised the first American opera house, professor at Columbia University.  

·      1880-1920 4.1 million Italians were recorded coming to the United States.

·      Italians, important contributions to the U.S Capital in Washington, British burn it down in 1814.

·      20^th Century Italians own land

·      The Italians immigrants in California introduced new crops and techniques to the world. 

·      Italian immigrant named Amadeo Pietro Giannini started Bank of America

·      Greeks brought their culture with them when immigrated to United States.

·      Started immigrating in 1890, most who immigrated were males, most of them just come to work for a bit in the states then returned back home.

·      Greeks worked in railroad construction gangs, textile mills, meat-packing, and shoe shining.

·      A lot of Greeks also started many restaurants,

·      Arabs were one of the emigrants who brought a lot of women with them compared to the other ethnicities. 

·      The Arabs worked as peddlers, would sell costume jewelry, and notions many others small items.

·      The Armenians were immigrant farmer workers.

·      Many come to Fresno California, would farm there.