Russian imigration to america

By chrixmix
  • russians standing at angle island waiting to be let in

    russians standing at angle island waiting to be let in

    the russinas tried to immagrated to america they had to go tthrough angle island. This island was an imagration office of sorts.
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    russian imegration

    the russians imegrated in the late 1800s, over three million people imegrated to the U.S but only about 10.000 people made it in. Most of the russians moved to New York, Boston and Alaska.
  • work

    work

    a lot of russians woked in mines, mostly coal and nickle mines. they worked long hours in dark and damb inviroments and many died from enhaling poisonus gasses.
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    what did the russians do?

    the russians worked mostly in mines or sweatshops. the russians also brought dance song and even tought some americans to ski and skate.

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    in 1919 and 1920 the red scare was at its highest (fear of comunism) and every Russian immigrant was deported and none returned.