There was more than one wave of massive Italian immigration to the United States, the second wave arriving from 1880-1910. This wave of immigration occurred for three primary reasons, the improvements of transport facilities, the economic crisis in Italy, and the booming labor demand of the United States. Furthermore, poverty, disease, and starvation in Italy caused many Italians to leave in search of more opportunity. Because of this, Italians were not always received the same was as immigrants who had come before them. These "Italians were looked upon as different from the older generations of immigrants and were often viewed as lower class" (Di Benedetto 9). Because these new Italians often lived in ghettos in the United States and performed some of the dirtier forms of labor, they were labeled as inferior by many Americans. Furthermore, because they did not attend church, they aroused suspicion and were even stereotyped as

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