Lithuanian Americans Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Lithuanian Americans Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Lithuanian Americans refers to American citizens and residents who are

Lithuanian and were born in Lithuania, or are of Lithuanian descent.

New Philadelphia, Pennsylvania has the largest percentage of

Lithuanian Americans (20.8%) in the United States. Lithuanian

Americans form by far the largest group within the Lithuanian

diaspora.It is believed that Lithuanian emigration to the United

States began in the 17th century when Alexander Curtius arrived in New

Amsterdam (present day New York City) in 1659 and became the first

Latin School teacher-administrator; he was also a physician.After the

fall of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1795, most of Lithuania

was incorporated into the Russian Empire. The beginnings of

industrialization and commercial agriculture based on Stolypin's

reforms, as well as the abolition of serfdom in 1861, freed the

peasants and turned them into migrant-laborers. The pressures of

industrialization, Lithuanian press ban, general discontent,

suppression of religious freedom and poverty drove numerous

Lithuanians, especially after the famine in 1867â€"1868, to emigrate

from the Russian Empire to the United States continuing until the

outbreak of the First World War. The emigration continued despite the

Tsarist attempts to control the border and prevent such a drastic loss

of population. Since Lithuania as a country did not exist at the time,

the people who arrived to the U.S. were recorded as either Polish,

German or Russian; moreover, due to the language ban in Lithuania and

prevalence of Polish language at that time, their Lithuanian names

were not transcribed in the same way as they would be today. As a

result, information about Lithuanian immigration before 1899 is not

available because incoming Lithuanians were not registered as

Lithuanians. Only after 1918, when Lithuania established its

independence, the immigrants to the U.S. started being recorded as

Lithuanians. This first wave of Lithuanian immigrants to the United

States ceased when the U.S. Congress passed the Emergency Quota Act in

1921, followed by the Immigration Act of 1924. The Immigration Act of

1924 was aimed at restricting the Eastern Europeans and Southern

Europeans who had begun to enter the country in large numbers

beginning in the 1890s.A second wave of Lithuanians emigrated to the

United States as a result of the events surrounding World War II â€"

the Soviet occupation of Lithuania in 1940 and the Nazi occupation

that followed in 1941. After the war's end and the subsequent

reoccupation of Lithuania by the Soviet Union, these Displaced Persons

were allowed to immigrate to the United States and to apply for

American citizenship thanks to a special act of Congress which

bypassed the quota system that was still in place until 1967. The

Displaced Persons Act of 1948 ultimately led to the immigration of

approximately 36,000 Lithuanians. Before that, the nationality quota

was only 384 Lithuanians per year.
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