Impact on national minorities

Question 1

Which law in 1882 established restrictions for Jews?

Answer 1

May laws

Question 2

Name two features of the May laws

Answer 2

Jews being banned from trading on Sundays and Christian holidays
Jews were removed from local government

Question 3

What was the derogatory term used against Jews?

Answer 3

Pogroms

Question 4

When was the Steppe Statute?

Answer 4

1891

Question 5

What did the Steppe Statute do?

Answer 5

encouraged Asian peasants to migrate to Russia by giving them 40 acres of land

Question 6

When was the Polish Socialist Party set up?

Answer 6

1892

Question 7

How did the trans Siberian railway effect Japan?

Answer 7

It was perceived as a threat in 1891

Question 8

Why wasn’t Asia targeted by Russification?

Answer 8

It was deemed to difficult given Asian intelligence

Question 9

What did the treaty with China in 1894 set up?

Answer 9

Support for the Trans Siberian Railway

Question 10

How did Alexander III push Russification in schools?

Answer 10

Made Russian the only language from 1881