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Your family saves enough money from the store profit to buy two properties in New Jersey.

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There is an upsurge of anti-Catholic and anti-Italian sentiment. This leads to the vandalizing of Italian grocery stores such as yours. Repairing the damage to your family’s store costs $1,000.

What do you have to do to truly be accepted in this country?

How can your family be more American?

A. Community cultural festivals

B. Regional Identity in homeland

C. Cultural food and gardening traditions

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Your family’s grocery store develops a burgeoning clientele. The family is able to buy another, larger store in your Italian community.

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After a few years, Virgil and Frank have saved enough to open their own small grocery store in a town near your family’s home. Although, the store mostly caters to the typical American clientele, you keep a small section stocked with traditional Italian goods for other Italians you remain connected to in private.

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Harper’s Weekly just published some anti-Italian cartoons suggesting poor Italian mothers have too many children. People now jeer at Maria as she walks with her children in town. The family is afraid again.

What can help you stay under the radar so you stay safe?

What will you give up?

A. Community cultural festivals

B. Regional Identity in homeland

C. Cultural food and gardening traditions

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Frank’s uncle has a connection to a business in Ohio and has offered the men in your family work there. Your family packs up and prepares for another long journey.

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Three Italians and several Chinese were killed after replacing striking coal miners in your town. The convicted murderers were just exonerated. This produces high levels of fear in the family for many years.

Which cultural identity will you give up to protect the family?

A. Community cultural festivals

B. Regional Identity in homeland

C. Cultural food and gardening traditions

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Welcome to Ellis Island, gateway to the United States for everyone without a first or second class ticket. This is how over 12 million people will enter the U.S.—In fact, over 40% of all Americans can trace their roots to someone who passed through here.

Welcome to the Melting Pot!

You will need to fit in, so hard decisions must be made.

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MEMBERS:

Evelyn Montecucco, age 50

Virgil Montecucco, age 53

Frank Spaziani, age 36

Maria del Signore Spaziani, age 31

Primrose Spaziani, age 8

Caesare Spaziani, age 4

OCCUPATION:

Railroads, Millinery, Merchandising

FROM:

Northwestern Genoa, Cerabali

MIGRATION TO THE UNITED STATES:

1892, to escape failing crops and malnutrition.

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