HIST 1220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Trail Of Broken Treaties, City Newspaper, Judith Sargent Murray
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Pick up from previous class, september 16, 2016. Jewish migration to the united states was different from other people"s because jewish people were more apt to relocate as families. 43% of jews who arrived here in the in the late 19th early. 20th century were women and they were more apt to relocate geminately. From 1889-1924: 1. 8 million jews came to the united states only 93 thousands returned. And a lot of that was connected to the religious persecution of jews in eastern europe and russia. In 1882 when zhar alexander ii was assassinated just as jews had been blamed throughout history for things that they actually had no involvement in, a lot of finger pointing in. Russia that jews were behind the assassination and they were thrown in prison or relocated into ghettos. So to escape all of that, many would make the choice to leave and leave forever.
