Approximately 40 Jews were killed, many times that number wounded, and hundreds of women raped. Regular pogrom outbreaks lasted until June 7, 1884, when the last pogrom of the series occurred in Nizhnii Novgorod; this pogrom was an exceptionally vicious one with its victims killed with axes and thrown from rooftops.
However, the worst anti-Jewish violence broke out in 1905, after Tsar Nicholas II was forced to sign the October Manifesto, creating a constitutional monarchy. More than 80 percent of the pogroms of 1905-1906 occurred in the 60 days following the release of the Manifesto.
-Between 1880 and 1925 about 2 million Jews entered the US. In the state of New York, for example, one person in ten is Jewish. Ellis Island: So many immigrants wanted to enter the US in the late 1800s that the government found it difficult to keep check on them. To control the situation it opened a special place of entry in New York Harbor. This place was called Ellis Island. All intending immigrants were examined there before they were allowed to enter the US. Ellis Island was opened in 1892. During its busiest times it dealt with almost 2000 immigrants a day. Between its opening and 1954, when it closed doors, more than 20 million people waited anxiously in halls and corridors. Since 1965, it has been part of the Statue of Liberty National Monument.(The Statue of Liberty was presented to the US in 1886. It was given by the people of France to mark the 100th anniversary of the War of Independence.)
Doctors examined them for disease. A letter chalked on their clothing - H for heart disease or E for eye disease- could end their hopes of new life in America. If diseased they were quarantined. Almost half of all present-day Americans have ancestors who entered the US by way of Ellis Island. - The way of live of immigrants: The new life of immigrants was a hard one. Often they couldn’t even speak the English language. Only a hardest and lowest paid jobs were open to them. They bulit railroads, worked on Rockefeller’s oil fields, or in factories. They lived in „slums“-very poor parts of cities. Estimation says that 300 000 people inhabited a single square mile on New York’s Lower East Side. Overcrowding, poor sanitation and lack of health services caused frequent epidemics. One of the most persistent shortcomings of American cities was thein failure to provide adequate housing for all who need it, population growth outsider housing supplies.