Pogroms prompted tsarist laws restricting Jewish residency and economic life.

Evidence

These attitudes prompted the government to introduce legislation to further restrict Jewish residency and economic activities to ‘protect’ Russian populations. In 1891, the government expelled some fifteen thousand Jews from Moscow. — James Renton, Ben Gidley (eds.), Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Europe, 535

Categorization

• CANDY: The euphemism of restricting residency to ‘protect’ the population after blaming the victims is a grimly quotable tidbit.