What explains the influx of Jewish immigrants between 1880 and 1920?
What will be an ideal response?
The ideal answer should include:
1. In 1880, there were about 250,000 Jews in America; by 1920, there were 4 million.
2. A number of factors motivated Jews to leave their small towns in Europe.
3. Economic turmoil and restrictions on Jewish land ownership, trade, and business left many Jews impoverished.
4. Anti-Semitic policies in Russia and eastern Europe confined many Jews to live in restricted areas.
5. Even more devastating was anti-Semitic violence in the form of pogroms.
6. Many Jewish young men emigrated to avoid being conscripted into the czar's army.
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