80 000 Scandinavians emigrate to the USA

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The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.2: American (US) Writing and Culture: The Nineteenth Century, 1783-1900.
Vol. editors: J. Michael Duvall (College of Charleston), Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Tony Papanikolas (San Jose State University)

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Population, migrations and new settlements

Dates

Date of occurrence 1882

Places

United States (Location)
Norway (Involved)
Sweden (Involved)

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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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