Including both original immigrants who obtained American citizenship and their American descendants. Swedish American cooking is quite ordinary; traditional dishes represent the cooking of the Swedish countryside, which is heavily weighted toward meat, fish, potatoes, and other starches. The Kingdom of Sweden is a constitutional monarchy that is located on the eastern half of the Scandinavian peninsula in Northern Europe. Although socialism was a minority movement among the Swedish Americans, it did reflect many of their concerns. University of Texas Institute of Texan Cultures at San Antonio, 1990.

At the start of the Civil War the Swedish American population numbered about 20,000, and their enthusiasm for Lincoln and the northern cause is seen in the fact that at least 3,000 Swedes served in the Union army, mainly in Illinois and Minnesota regiments. Famous Swedish-Americans. Address: 5125 North Spaulding Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60625. When 51 Swedish settlers came to the wooded area, led by W.W. Thomas, who called them “mina barn i skogen” (my children in the woods). Other technical achievements and inventions of Swedish Americans include an improved zipper (Peter Aronsson and Gideon Sundback), the Bendix drive (Vincent Bendix), an improved disc clutch (George William Borg), and xerographic dry-copying (Chester Carlson). In the twentieth century the Bishop Hill Heritage Association began restoring the settlement to its original condition. The immigrants greatly valued the religious freedom that America offered, but their political freedoms were heavily circumscribed by McKeesport’s “booze interest” and iron and steel bosses.

Upon arrival, they knelt in prayer and thanksgiving to God. These groups established the beginnings of the ethnic communities that are still today identifiably Swedish American. For others this meant independent work in the larger American community as skilled workers or independent businesspeople in low-capital, high-labor fields such as wood and metal work, printing, and building contracting. They had no illusions about American life but they chose to stay and confront difficult living and working conditions rather than move on or return to Sweden where good jobs were scarce and paid much less. Swedish Americans became enthusiastic supporters of the newly rising Republican party and of Abraham Lincoln. Encyclopedia.com gives you the ability to cite reference entries and articles according to common styles from the Modern Language Association (MLA), The Chicago Manual of Style, and the American Psychological Association (APA). But this pattern was soon altered by a number of factors, including the increased immigration of single young people, the geographical dispersion of the Swedish immigrants, and secondary migrations within the United States. Swedish Americans have fought for America in all of its wars, from the Revolution to the present day. Swedish is a North Germanic language, related to Norwegian, Danish, and German. Swedish American Museum Center of Chicago. Hospitals, clinics, nursing homes, sanitariums, and orphanages were all a part of the network of care for the immigrants. the "middle way," a neutral, socialist country between the capitalist West and the communist East, ruled for most of 50 years by the Social Democratic party. 3: Lebanese. It was a tremendous change for these immigrants, leaving the state church for a system where they had to intentionally join and financially support a specific congregation. The country's official language is Swedish, and the capital is Stockholm. There was a close affinity with the Finns, many of whom were Swedish-speaking settlers from western Finland (Sweden had ruled Finland from the Middle Ages until 1809). However they returned to Sweden in 1934 and Vasa itself became Americanized. As the Swedes adapted to American society, their employment patterns began to emulate that of the society as a whole, and they moved into educated positions in teaching, business, and industry. Bergendoff, Conrad. Here they worked as lumberjacks and miners, two professions that were common in Sweden. Among them, the Swedish Cemetery Corporation (1885), the Swedish Lutheran Old People’s Home(1920), Fairlawn Hospital (1921), and the Scandinavian Athletic Club (1923). The churches reached out beyond their membership to serve many others in the immigrant community, but some Swedes chose to join American churches or to join no church at all. In addition, given the Swedish domination of the building trades in the Midwest, there were many who became involved with the construction trade unions, most notably Lawrence Lindelof, president of the International Brotherhood of Painters and Allied Trades from 1929 to 1952. Swedish America was thus founded on a tight communal and familial structure, and these characteristics were present both in rural and urban settlements. During After completing their education, some returned to Sweden to practice there. The town of New Sweden celebrates St. Lucia, Midsummer, and Founders Day (July 23). The students mostly had white-collar or professional backgrounds; few were the sons and daughters of farmers and laborers. Some brought with them the colorful, festive clothing representative of their region of Sweden, but such ethnic costumes were not worn often. Another contemporary Swedish American writer in Nelson Algren (1909-1981), who has written extensively about the hard realities of urban and working class life.

A colony established by Queen Christina of Sweden in 1638, it centered around theDelaware Valley including parts of the present-day states of Delaware, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. 4 Turkey is a transcontinental country in the Middle East and Southeast Europe. A Swedish-speaking enclave existed in the Delaware River valley until the nineteenth century, however. Sweden has a long history of representative government, with the nobles, the clergy, and the peasants all represented in the Swedish Parliament. Rock Island, Illinois: Augustana Historical Society, 1968.

In addition to the MLA, Chicago, and APA styles, your school, university, publication, or institution may have its own requirements for citations. Founded in 1950, the society is dedicated to the preservation and documentation of the heritage of Swedish Americans. During the Vietnam era of the 1960s and 1970s relations between Sweden and the United States were somewhat strained, but the rapport between the two nations has improved significantly since then. In Congress he espoused midwestern Populist ideals, opposed big business interests, and spoke forcefully against American involvement in World War I. The story of A. V. Swanson, who in 1911 left Bjuv at age 20 and settled in Ames, Iowa eight years later is a case study in farming and business success. Remembering an early Christian saint who brought light in the darkness of the world, a young woman is selected to be the "Lucia bride." The 1990 census reported that almost 4.7 million Americans claimed some Swedish ancestry (making it the thirteenth largest ethnic group), with almost 40 percent in the Midwest, 30 percent in the West, and 15 percent each in the South and Northeast.
Swedish Americans usually came through New York City and subsequently settled in the upper Midwest.

They faced hardships but were full of determination and perseverance. The various Gothic settlements were centered in eastern Sweden and the island of Gotland in the Baltic. between the Democratic and Republican parties, while rural Swedish Americans remain overwhelmingly Republican. To reach a specific area within SwedishAmerican Health System, please choose from the e-mail addresses and phone numbers listed below. Most online reference entries and articles do not have page numbers. The harsh experiences of the frontier were subjects for novelists and story tellers, Of interest revealing the immigrant experience are the novels of Lillian Budd (1897–1989), especially April Snow (1951), Land of Strangers (1953), and April Harvest (1959). Swedish Americans have also made notable contributions in publishing, art, acting, writing, education, ministry, and politics. Lindsborg, Kansas is representative. For the vast majority, however, the motivation for emigration was economic, although they welcomed the chance to worship in their own way.
Besides their religious duties these priests kept the citizenship and tax records, and functioned as the local representatives of governmental power. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1979. Preservation of both literary and non-literary materials relating to Swedish immigration to the United States, the history of Augustana College and its relation to the Lutheran Church, and cultural exchange between the campus and Sweden. Contact: Kerstin Lane, Executive Director. Established in 1876, this newspaper is published in Swedish and English. Swedish emigration to the United States had reached new heights in 1896, and it was in this year that the Vasa Order of America, a Swedish American fraternal organization, was founded to help immigrants, who often lacked an adequate network of social services. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_American. Media related to Swedish Americans at Wikimedia Commons. Barton, H. Arnold. Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America. After the war, many Scandinavians in Minnesota left the Republican party for the new Farmer Labor party, which adopted many of the Populist ideals common among the Swedes. Modern Swedish American politicians have included Governors Orville Freeman (Minnesota), James Thompson (Illinois), and Kay Orr (Nebraska), Senator Warren Magnusson (Washington), and Representative John B. Anderson (Illinois). We came to this country as many others did, POOR! Contact: Birgitta W. Davis, Acting Director. Colonial – Main article: Swedish colonization of the Americas.

For the most part, the older agricultural techniques from Sweden were not applicable to American farms, and Swedish Americans made few unique contributions to American agriculture. They were officially Lutheran, but many were unhappy with state church Christianity in Sweden and sought different forms of religious expression. The first waves of immigration were more rural and family oriented, but as the immigration progressed this pattern changed; young single men (and later women) left Sweden to find employment in American cities. Many Swedes left the Republican party in 1932 to vote for Franklin D. Roosevelt in the presidential election, and some remained in the Democratic party.

This time not only farm families emigrated, but also loggers, miners, and factory workers from the cities. During the Revolutionary War, Swedes from Maryland and Delaware fought, for the most part, on the revolutionary side, some in the Army, but many more in the new American Navy. there was little assimilation into American society, and little outmarriage with other groups. With the changing complexion of immigration later in the century (more single youth heading toward urban areas) came the growth of immigration to the East and West Coasts. The patterns of Swedish immigrant settlement changed during the course of the nineteenth century, varying with economic conditions and opportunities. The Swedish Americans attached relatively little significance to the American dimension of their ethnicity; instead they relied on an extant Swedish literature. The building is modeled after a seventeenth-century Swedish manor house. 6 Kazakhstan is technically a bicontinental country, having a small portion in European hands. From Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, https://simple.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Swedish_Americans&oldid=6523093, Articles containing Swedish-language text, Commons category with local link different than on Wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License. This tradition was never overcome, even by the most autocratic of Swedish kings.