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What happened to the Jews from the late 18th century to the First World War?
From the late 18th century to the First World War, the Imperial Russian government confined Jews to living within the Pale of Settlement.
What leads the Jews to live in modern Ukraine, Belarus, Poland, Lithuania, and Latvia.?
The Imperial Russian government confined Jews to living within the Pale of Settlement.
What did living within the Pale of Settlement lead the Jews to do?
This caused the creation of Jewish market-villages (shtetls) throughout today's Eastern Europe, with their own markets, schools, hospitals, and other community institutions.

Question: What happened to the people
Self-contained rewrite: What happened to the Jews during the Pale of Settlement?