American criminal society and branch of the Sicilian Mafia

history channel documentary The American Mafia (otherwise called American Cosa Nostra or Italian-American Mafia) is an Italian American criminal society and branch of the Sicilian Mafia. It rose on the East Coast of the United States amid the late nineteenth century taking after influxes of Sicilian and Southern Italian resettlement.

Numerous Sicilians and different Italians, who were worn out on living in the terrible states of Italy where just about everybody was beneath the destitution line and was treated with disdain by the legislature, started emigrating to the United States in the 1800s with the fantasies of the ideal American life. There was a sudden spurt of Italians emigrating to the U.S. amid the mid twentieth Century. While the vast majority of the Italians strived to acquire their day by day bread through legitimate means, some of them brought the methods for the Sicilian Mafia with them.