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Immigration
The economic, social, and political aspects of immigration have caused controversy regarding ethnicity, economic benefits, jobs for non-immigrants, settlement patterns, impact on upward social mobility, crime, and voting behavior. -
Russian Immigrates
The first wave of russian imimgrates was in the 18th century. Russians began to expand in northwest america to trap for furs. There commercial, hunting and trading company was set up.
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Chinese -___-
By the year 1851, there were 25,000 Chinese working in California, mostly centered in and out of the "Gold Rush" area and around San Francisco. During that time, more than half the Chinese in the U.S. lived in that region. These Chinese clustered into groups, working hard and living frugally. -
Russia- http://www2.needham.k12.ma.us/nhs/cur/kane98/kane_p6_immig/russian/eklbab.html
In 1870, the Russian government revoked freedom of worship, draft exemption, and legal autonomy from all of its citizens, stimulating Russian Jewish emigration. A government sponsored policy, labeled Cold Pogrom or Russification Program, was created to destroy Jewish life and designed to stamp out the many different ethnic cultures within the Czar's realm.1 It's official hope was that 1/3 of Russia's Jews would die out, 1/3 would emigrate, and 2/3 would be converted to the Orthodox Church. -
Russian Jews
Many Russian Jews immigrated to America in the late 19th century and early 20th century. They came because of the persecution, discrimination, fear, and economic problems they faced in Russia. The word Russian includes immigrants of Russian ethnicity, along with eastern Slavs from Belorussia, Ukraine, and members of the former Hapsburg Austrian province of Galicia.
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