Something of the things I found interesting in this chapter
were:
In the early 1890’s, one in three tickets were prepaid,
after the turn of the century, two in three were.
Joseph Chamberlain (officer in charge of passenger
conditions) said that it was okay to keep the conditions bad for immigrants
because they were used to it anyway.
Between 1880 and 1920 the highest volume of a population
came in a short amount of time. About 4.1 million Italians came, but about two
of three went to other part. (mostly to Brazil and Argentina).
An estimated 30 to 50 percent of Italians returned back to
their country.
Most Italian imigrants were skilled artisans but there were
also merchants actors, musicians, waiters, businessmen and more.
Only about 1 percent of Italian American kids were enrolled
in school.
Italians had contact with crime and criminals most often as
victims because of the neighborhoods they lived in.
An estimated 640,000 Greeks came between 1820 and 1975, by
1975 there were twice that many Greeks (mostly male immigrants).
Italians: barbershops, Greek: Restaurants, Chinese: laundries
Almost all Arabs that immigrated to the United States were Christians.
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