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During the 19th and early 20th centuries, about 1.3 million Swedes left Sweden for the United States of America. While the land of the American frontier was a magnet for the rural poor all over Europe, some factors encouraged Swedish emigration in particular.
After the Spanish-American War, Cuba's fertile lands and year-round farming potential attracted many Swedes seeking opportunities abroad. [5] Dr. Alfred Lind was a pioneering figure in this movement, actively promoting Cuban settlements to Swedish immigrants in the United States, particularly those from Minnesota.
The New Sweden Company established a colony on the Delaware River in 1638, naming it New Sweden.The colony was lost to the Dutch in 1655. [3]Between 1846 and 1930, roughly 1.3 million people, about 20% of the Swedish population, left the country.
In her clip, The TikToker reveals her surprise over why Swedes “only” eat candy on Saturdays. According to Atlas Obscura, it stems back to the 1940s, when a Swedish study linked tooth decay ...
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Like their Norwegian American and Danish American brethren, many Swedes sought out the agrarian lifestyle they had left behind in Sweden, as many immigrants settled on farms throughout the Midwest. There are towns scattered throughout the Midwest, such as Lindsborg, Kansas and Lindström, Minnesota , that to this day continue to celebrate their ...
The origins of the various European diasporas [36] can be traced to the people who left the European nation states or stateless ethnic communities on the European continent. From 1500 to the mid-20th century, 60–65 million people left Europe, of which less than 9% went to tropical areas (the Caribbean , Asia , and Africa ).