For Monday's class, please read Chapter Seven and consider the following questions:
- What changes were there in the "means" of immigration in this period? Did conditions improve?
- What was notable about the immigration of Italians in this period?
- Which groups from the Mediterranean had the highest rates of return migration?
- What political event occurred in Italy in the mid-1800's that spurred a lot of emigration?
- Where did Italians go in America, and what were their occupations?
- What was the role of the immigrant banker?
- What was the padroni system?
- Why did so few Italians send their children to Catholic schools?
- What, according to Daniels, is the most controversial aspect of the Italian American experience?
- Who were Sacco and Vanzetti?
- Why is it difficult to determine how many Greeks came to the United States?
- What occupations did Greeks pursue?
- What do the businesses of Greek, Italian, and Chinese immigrants have in common?
- Until recently, what was the religion of the majority of Arab immigrants to the United States?
- What did Arab immigrants do for a living?
- Why did Armenians emigrate and where did they go?
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