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Most italian immigrants to the united states between 1880 and 1920 came to escape

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Answer: the majority fleeing grinding rural poverty

Explanation: Between around 1880 and 1924, more than four million Italians immigrated to the United States, half of them between 1900 and 1910 alone—the majority fleeing grinding rural poverty in Southern Italy and Sicily. Today, Americans of Italian ancestry are the nation's fifth-largest ethnic group.

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