Italian Americans
An Italian American is a U.S. citizen of Italian descent. It may mean someone born in the United States with Italian parents or grandparents or someone born in Italy who moved to the United States. The largest group of Italians moved to the United States in the early 1900s; two million moved between 1900 to 1914. Only Irish and Germans moved to the United States in bigger numbers. In 2000 the government counted 15.6 million Italian Americans in the United States. This means that in the year 2000, for every 1000 Americans, 56 of them were Italian Americans.
Italian Americans have been an important part in building the United States. Many great politicians, inventors, scientists, soldiers, musicians and film makers (actors and directors) have been Italian Americans. The Mafia in the United States was made by some Italian Americans but nearly all Italian Americans have nothing to do with it.
Most of them came from southern Italy, in regions such as Sicily, Naples and Calabria, only a sizeable minority of Italian Americans have ancestral roots in Northern Italy.
New York City has more Italian Americans than any other city in the United States. More than 3 million Italians live in or near New York. The states of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, California, Florida and Massachusetts also have large Italian American populations. There are large Italian-American populations in the cities of Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, Detroit, Ohio, which each have over a half million Italians.
Italian Americans Media
The Italian explorer Christopher Columbus leads an expedition to the New World, 1492. His voyages are celebrated as the discovery of the Americas from a European perspective, and they opened a new era in the history of humankind and sustained contact between the two worlds.
World map of Waldseemüller (Germany, 1507), which first used the name America (in the lower-left section, over South America). The name America derives from the Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci.
Enrico Tonti, who founded the first European settlement in Illinois in 1679, and in Arkansas in 1683, making him "The Father of Arkansas".
Filippo Mazzei, Italian physician and promoter of liberty whose phrase "All men are by nature equally free and independent" was incorporated into the United States Declaration of Independence
Statue of Francesco Vigo, who aided the colonial forces of George Rogers Clark during the American Revolutionary War
The Battle of the Little Bighorn. The Italian soldier Giovanni Martino was the only survivor from Custer's company at the battle
The Garibaldi-Meucci Museum on Staten Island
Review of the Garibaldi Guard by President Lincoln
The "Bambinos" of Little Italy - Syracuse, New York in 1899
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References
- ↑ "IPUMS USA". University of Minnesota. Retrieved October 12, 2022.
- ↑ "Table B04006 - People Reporting Ancestry - 2015 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates". United States Census Bureau. Archived from the original on 13 July 2022. Retrieved 13 July 2022.
- ↑ "Table B04006 - People Reporting Ancestry - 2010 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates". United States Census Bureau. Archived from the original on 13 July 2022. Retrieved 13 July 2022.
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- ↑ "Italian American Population in All 50 States". www.niaf.org. Archived from the original on 9 October 2008. Retrieved 15 May 2022.
- ↑ "1990 Census of Population Detailed Ancestry Groups for States" (PDF). United States Census Bureau. 18 September 1992. Retrieved 30 November 2012.
- ↑ "Rank of States for Selected Ancestry Groups with 100,000 or more persons:1980" (PDF). United States Census Bureau. Retrieved 30 November 2012.
- ↑ "AMERICAN ITALIAN SLANG WORDS". LETS LEARN SLANG. June 15, 2021.
- ↑ "American-Italian dictionary". americanitalian.net.