Between 1880 and 1924, two million Jews immigrated to the United States, many of whom were fleeing Russia to escape the:
Explanation
Answer: B - Jews fleeing the poverty and pogroms of the Russian Empire between the 1880s and 1920s immigrated to the United States in desperate numbers. Pogroms were violent riots against Jews, generally fomented by circles within the Russian government in a plan to deflect the anti-government hostility that would eventually result in the Russian Revolution and overthrow of the tsarist regime. Thousands of Jews died during those swells of violence. With so many Jews fleeing the pogroms, and then the police activity in Germany that became the Holocaust, by 1934 the United States reached its quota for Jewish immigrants and began denying their entry, leaving many without refuge as the Nazi campaigns mounted. Humanitarian efforts to increase the numbers admitted, or to advance the entry dates of those who would eventually be admitted anyway, were impeded by the existing anti-Jewish sentiment in the U.S. at that time.
