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  2. Russian Americans - Wikipedia

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    The term can apply to recent Russian immigrants to the United States, as well as to those who settled in the 19th-century Russian possessions in northwestern America. Russian Americans comprise the largest Eastern European and East Slavic population in the US, the second-largest Slavic population generally, the nineteenth-largest ancestry group ...

  3. History of immigration to the United States - Wikipedia

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    Colonial-era immigrants often repaid the cost of transoceanic transportation by becoming indentured servants in which the new employer paid the ship's captain. In the late 19th century, immigration from China and Japan was restricted. In the 1920s, restrictive immigration quotas were imposed but political refugees had special status.

  4. Russian colonization of North America - Wikipedia

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    After Russian America was sold to the U.S. in 1867, for $7.2 million (2 cents per acre, equivalent to $156,960,000 in 2023), all the holdings of the RussianAmerican Company were liquidated. Following the transfer, many elders of the local Tlingit tribe maintained that " Castle Hill " comprised the only land that Russia was entitled to sell.

  5. Russian Americans in New York City - Wikipedia

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    The first Russian immigrants to the United States arrived in the end of the 18th century (one of the first immigrants from Russia was Demetrius Galitzen, a Russian noble who became a Catholic priest in Mount Savage, Md. [2]). Historians differ on the number and the timing of the 'waves' of Russian immigration.

  6. Russian Empire–United States relations - Wikipedia

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    Throughout the Revolutionary War, Catherine believed an independent American nation would be ideal for Russian business interests. While some Russian leaders worried that an independent America might interfere with Russia's trade with other European nations, Catherine saw direct Russian-American trade as an excellent opportunity to expand commerce.

  7. History of laws concerning immigration and naturalization in ...

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    The Immigration Act of 1891 led to the establishment of the U.S. Bureau of Immigration and the opening of the Ellis Island inspection station in 1892. Constitutional authority (Article 1 §8) was later relied upon to enact the Naturalization Act of 1906 which standardized procedures for naturalization nationwide, and created the Bureau of ...

  8. Russian diaspora - Wikipedia

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    In the late 1800s, there was a large influx of Jewish immigrants to the United States from Russia and Eastern Europe to escape religious persecution. From the third of the Jewish population that left the area, roughly eighty percent resettled in America.

  9. Category:Russian emigrants to the United States - Wikipedia

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    This category generally relates to emigrants to the United States from the (post-Soviet) Russian Federation. Articles on earlier emigrants should be assigned to one of the categories listed under "See also" below. See also: Category:Emigrants from the Russian Empire to the United States Category:Soviet emigrants to the United States