(Changed "Rating" to "Content".) |
(Changed "Rating" to "Content".) |
||
| Line 116: | Line 116: | ||
*Between 1820 and 1870 only 7,550 Russians immigrated to the United States, but starting with 1881, immigration rate exceeded 10,000 a year: 593,700 in 1891–1900, 1.6 million in 1901–1910, 868,000 in 1911–1914, and 43,000 in 1915–1917. Millions traveled to the new world in the last decade of the 19th century, some for political reasons, some for economic reasons, and some for a combination of both. | *Between 1820 and 1870 only 7,550 Russians immigrated to the United States, but starting with 1881, immigration rate exceeded 10,000 a year: 593,700 in 1891–1900, 1.6 million in 1901–1910, 868,000 in 1911–1914, and 43,000 in 1915–1917. Millions traveled to the new world in the last decade of the 19th century, some for political reasons, some for economic reasons, and some for a combination of both. | ||
*The most prominent Russian groups that immigrated in this period were groups from Imperial Russia seeking '''freedom from religious persecution:''' | *The most prominent Russian groups that immigrated in this period were groups from Imperial Russia seeking '''freedom from religious persecution:''' | ||
{{Block indent|*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Russia '''Russian Jews,'''] escaping the 1881–1882 pogroms by Alexander III, who moved to '''New York City and other coastal cities'''; }} | |||
{{Block indent|*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiritual_Christianity '''Spiritual Christians'''], who settled largely in the cities of '''Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Portland, Oregon;'''}} | |||
{{Block indent|*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shtundists '''Shtundists'''] who moved to '''Virginia and the Dakotas;}} | |||
{{Block indent|*and mostly between 1874 and 1880 German-speaking '''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anabaptism Anabaptists], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Mennonite Russian Mennonites] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hutterites Hutterites'''], who settled mainly in '''Kansas (Mennonites), the Dakota Territory, and Montana (Hutterites)''';}} | |||
{{Block indent|1=*1908–1910, the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Believers '''Old Believers'''] settled in small groups in '''California, Oregon (particularly the Willamette Valley region), Pennsylvania, and New York.'''<ref name="Russia"/>|2=1}} | |||
*'''World War I''' uprooted half a million Russian Jews. After the war, hundreds of thousands of Jews began leaving Europe and Russia again for the U.S., Israel and other countries where they hoped to start a new life. | *'''World War I''' uprooted half a million Russian Jews. After the war, hundreds of thousands of Jews began leaving Europe and Russia again for the U.S., Israel and other countries where they hoped to start a new life. | ||
*A large wave of Russians immigrated in the short time period of 1917–1922, '''in the wake of October Revolution and Russian Civil War'''. This group is known collectively as the '''White émigrés'''. The U.S. was the third largest destination for those immigrants, after France and Serbia. | *A large wave of Russians immigrated in the short time period of 1917–1922, '''in the wake of October Revolution and Russian Civil War'''. This group is known collectively as the '''White émigrés'''. The U.S. was the third largest destination for those immigrants, after France and Serbia. | ||
edits