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~ Swedish Emigration to America ~

  • A Review of Swedish Emigration to America
  • TheAmericanWest.com: A Review of Swedish Emigration to America
  • Swedes first began arriving in Americas in 1638, not long after the arrival of the Mayflower. "The early Swedes settled in Delaware but the tidal wave of Swedish emigration began in the mid 1840s, when the first organized emigrant groups started to arrive in New York. These farmers destined to Iowa and Illinois were followed during the period up to 1930 by almost 1.3 million countrymen and rank number seven among the European immigrant groups."
    1. Agricultural Crisis
    2. Peace, Vaccination and Potatoes
    3. A New Era was Dawning
    4. Literacy and Emigration
    5. The Pioneers
    6. Mass Emigration
    7. The Emigration Machinery
    8. New York, The Gateway to America
    9. The Journey Through America
    10. The Homesteaders
    11. The Homes in the New World
    12. Most Swedes Stayed in the Cities
    13. Swedish-America
    14. The Swedish Heritage in America
    15. The House of Emigrants


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