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/Home/Historical Studies/Culture/North America/U.S. Studies/European Americans/Scandinavian Index/Swedish/General Resources American Swedish Historical Museum Votes:0 Welcome l VÄlkommen Photograph credits Copyright © American Swedish Historical Museum. All rights reserved Read More Go to Site Swedish America in Fifty Years- Votes:0 Swedish America in Fifty Years--2050 by H. Arnold Barton Dr. Barton wrote the following article as a contribution to the 1996 celebration of the Swedish Immigration Jubilee. Dr. Barton is professor emeritus of history at Southern Illinois University. He served as editor of the Swedish-American Historical Quarterly from 1974 to 1990, and is the author of several books on Swedish-American history, including A Folk Divided . On April 16, 1959, the Swedish-American newspaper Svea in Worcester, Massachusetts, published an editorial under the alarming heading "Pulse Weak, the End Near." The editorial announced that Swedish America was gravely ill, and that the doctors "withdrew discreetly to allow the patient to spend his last hours in peace." The patient, to be sure, showed Read More Go to Site Swedish Immigration Votes:0 Swedish Immigration Spartacus , USA History , British History , Second World War , First World War , Germany , Immigration to the USA , Slavery , Civil Rights , Civil War , Author , Search Website , Email In 1638 the Swedish government employed the experience Dutch explorer, Peter Minuit , to help them establish a colony in America. Soon afterwards t wo vessels owned by the Swedish West India Company arrived with 50 colonists and established a small settlem ent in Delaware Bay. They named the town Christina in honor of Sweden's young queen. The Swedes became involved in the fur and tobacco trades and this brought them into conflict with Dutch and English settlers. Peter Stuyvesant , the governor of the New Netherland colony arrived in 1655 with a formidable armada and took the Swedish sett Read More Go to Site Swedish Migration Votes:0 Swedish Immigration Extensive Swedish migration to the present-day state of Minnesota has taken place throughout the middle of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Several factors have encouraged emigration of Swedes from their homeland and to choose Minnesota as their new home. Why did they leave? The reasons why people left Sweden for homes elsewhere are called "push" factors. These factors are varied and often work in conjunction with the "pull" factors (reasons to migrate to particular area) of a certain part of the world, such as Minnesota. One reason people left Sweden was due to a lack of available land. By the mid-1800s, the population of Sweden was on the rise due to improvements in modern medicine and a more stable food supply. This increase in popula Read More Go to Site Utah History Encyclopedia Votes:0 SWEDISH IMMIGRANTS AND LIFE IN UTAH The first Swedish-American resident of Utah was John Erik Forsgren, native of GÄvle and a veteran of the Mormon Battalion, who reached Salt Lake City in 1847. Three years later, in July 1850, Forsgren baptized the first Latter-day Saint converts in his native land, thus initiating the process by which about 9,000 Swedish Mormons emigrated from Sweden to Utah in the nineteenth century. Forsgren escorted the first large company of Scandinavian Latter-day Saint immigrants, including a few Swedes, to Utah in 1852-53, sailing with 297 on the Forest Monarch , which William Mulder dubbed "the Mayflower of Mormon emigration from Scandinavia." Some of the group followed Forsgren to Box Elder County as settlers. Although hampered by the lack of constitutional prot Read More Go to Site

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