Immigration has become the base of our country and without it, we wouldn’t be the same. Both Italy and America had their strengths and weaknesses that changed the minds of many to come to America. Italy during this peak of immigration was very unsteady, and not many people had hope for their future. They had a legacy of violence, social chaos, overpopulation, and widespread poverty due to internal strife. Southern Italians were known to have lived the hardest life. Many Italian immigrants came from places like Calabria, Campania, Abruzzi, Molise, and Sicily, with a lot of free land and countryside in the South. In Il Mezzogiorno, Southern Italy, it was very rural and hard for people living there. Not only did they not get paid enough, they
