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<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 123%; line-height: 23px;">Italians had left Italy because of diseases and starvation. There was the agricultural crisis that Italy suffered in the 1880s. During this time, Italian agriculture was hurt by the increasing amount of products from America that invaded Italian markets. The price of wheat and other products fell, and unemployment increased as landowners and peasants no longer could profitably trade. They also left because a great numbers of Italian immigrants had a lack of democracy (few Italians had the right to vote) and a low literacy rate. In Italy there was a lot of economic troubles. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 90%;"> **

<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;"> In 1850, less than 4,000 Italians were reportedly in the U.S. However in 1880, the population skyrocketed to 44,000, and by 1900, 484,027. They worked jobs such as shoe shinning, sewer cleaning, and whatever hard, dirty, dangerous jobs others didn't want. Even children worked at an early age, as in Italy, even at the expense of their educations. In the late 19th and 20th centuries, Italians often became fishermen, shoemakers, waiters, fruit sellers, and tradesmen. Most were unskilled laborers though, working in mines and construction jobs. Over the years, the Italians rose up the economic scale.

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