Driven by poor crops, high unemployment and a scarcity of farmland, emigrants from Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Sweden arrived in the United States in large numbers in the late 19th and early 20th century, peaking at over 100,000 in 1882. The majority of Scandinavians settled in the Midwest.
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