Reminders. 1  Sum of the angles in a triangle = 180Â°. 2  Sum of the angles in a quadrilateral = 360Â°. 3  Opposite angles are equal. 4  For two parallel lines and a transversal, 5  corresponding angles are equal, and. 6  alternate angles are equal.
They came to the United States for a variety of reasons, most notably because of the persecution, discrimination, fear, and economic problems they faced in Russia. 2 1/2 million of the 8 million immigrants who immigrated to America between 1880-1914 from Russia and Austria-Hungary were Jews.
From 1880 to 1924, more than two million Eastern Europeans, mainly Catholics, immigrated to the U.S. Of those, immigrants of Polish ancestry were the largest group. During the same period, roughly two million Jews came to the U.S., seeking opportunity and fleeing the political massacre taking place in Eastern Europe. Italian immigration to the U.S. reached its peak of over two million between 1910 and 1920. Immigration quotas passed in the 1920s tended to favor earlier generations of immigrants by giving preference to Northern Europeans.