Josefine Sjöberg
Rudbecksskolan ÃÂrebro
DATE \@ "MMMM d, y" December 12, 2013
Emigration from Sweden to North America
Across the Atlantic towards a better world
At the end of the 1800 century up until the early 1920s there was a mass emigration from Sweden to North America. Approximately 1.3 million Swedes sailed over the Atlantic to start a new life in the land of dreams. In this essay I will tell you about this event in history. I will tell you about the time and the people, the time leading up to it and divulge why so many men and women decided to leave the land they called home.
The swedish mass emigration took of during the spring of 1841 when Gustaf Unonius with his wife, maid and a couple of students left the country and founded a small residence called 'New Upsala' at Pine Lake in Wisconsin.
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