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A map of the United States and Canada with number of Norwegian Americans and Norwegian Canadians in every state and province including Washington, D.C. Minneapolis has the largest concentration of Norwegians outside Norway.
A later recession during the 1860s and famine further drove Scandinavians to emigrate. Although immigration to the United States decreased during the American Civil War, a significant wave again left during the 1880s. By the 1920s, the number of Scandinavian immigrants had decreased greatly, stopping almost entirely during the Great Depression ...
Norwegian immigration to North America began in earnest in the mid-19th century, driven by a combination of economic, social, and political factors in Norway. Between 1825 and 1925, more than 800,000 Norwegians emigrated to the United States and Canada, making Norwegians one of the most significant European ethnic groups to settle in the ...
An increasing number of people ignored the ancestry question or chose no specific ancestral group such as "American or United States". In the 2000 census this represented over 56.1 million or 19.9% of the United States population, an increase from 26.2 million (10.5%) in 1990 and 38.2 million (16.9%) in 1980 and are specified as "unclassified ...
Under the law, the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, [39] the number of first-generation immigrants living in the United States has increased, [40] from 9.6 million in 1970 to about 38 million in 2007. [41] Around a million people legally immigrated to the United States per year in the 1990s, up from 250,000 per year in the 1950s. [42]
In 1990 the Norwegian population in the city had fallen to about 10.000 and in 2007 more than 20.000 claimed to be of Norwegian descent. One of the best known Norwegian from New York is Thor Solberg, a pioneer in aviator, who was the first person to fly solo from the United States to Norway in 1935. [3]
By 1850, more than half of Wisconsin's Norwegian population of 5,000 lived in the Koshkonong Settlement, which served for a time as the largest Norwegian-American community in the U.S. [5] It was the sixth Norwegian settlement in the U.S. and the third to be founded in Wisconsin.
Ludwig Andreas Olsen – (1845–1886) also known as Louis Williams, United States Navy sailor; George William Rud – (1883–1916) United States Navy Chief Machinist's Mate; Thorvald A. Solberg – (1894–1964) United States Navy rear admiral, twice recipient of the Legion of Merit, and head of the Office of Naval Research.