Denmark


 * __Denmark__**

1.) What time period did the majority of people from your country come to the United States?

The most danish immigrants came to the United States between 1850 and 1900. There was a small amount of danish missonaries that arrived in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1850 and they spread the news about America. In the next several years, the greatest amount of danish immigrants ever arrived in America. After they had arrived most of them went to live with the past generation of danish immigrants in Utah. The population nearly doubled and by the end of the 1900's, Utah had the biggest population of danish immigrants.

2.) Why did they want to immigrate to America?

The danish immigrants immigrated to America for many reasons. Some being personal and some being a problem with the country. A few reasons they immigrated are because they were poor and wanted to escape to America from problems like pregant girls, crime,etc. There was also many time periods when there was problems with the government where most of the people came to America for one big reason. An example of one of those time periods are from about 1864 to 1870 because their country was defeated by Bismarck's Prussia and he was ruling them. Also, during the 1870's grain came from America and Russia and turned into a best-seller at the markets so the agriculture that farmers normally made money off of wasn't selling at all.

3.) Where in Wisconsin did they establish a community?

Danish immigrants settled mostly in Racine, Denmark, Kenosha, Luck, Madison, Milwaukee, and Washington Island. In those towns they brought a little bit of their culture by building churches, introducing new foods, and much more. The following are the states with the most danish people in 2000: they are California (207,030), Utah (144,713), Minnesota (88,924), Wisconsin (72,160), and Washington (72,098). The states with the least danish people in 2000 were West Virginia (1,317), Delaware (1,585), Rhode Island (1,811), Vermont (2,522), and Mississippi (2,617). There is one smaller population of danish people but that is in Washington D.C. which has 1,047 danish people and isn't a state.

4.) How did this group influence Wisconsin? Danish food is very delicious. You may have heard of some of the food they brought. Out of many foods here are just a few examples: they brought kringle, aebels, pigs liver and meatballs, they were more of chefs. [|To find more recipes for Danish food click on this sentence.]Since danish people do not have many people in America, most people don't normally realize how many foods, cultures, and lots more that they brought. If you ever want to have a taste of danish food there are many bakeries that have danish kringle and a good danish restaurant to go to is in Williams Bay, WI. It is called the Danish Tea Room at SkagenHus.



5.) Explain some of the problems the immigrants encountered in the new American life. There were many hard times when the danish immigrants came to america. They had no food since there was so many people, they lost their jobs because there were new immigrants that were better than them, they had no money since they lost their jobs, they lost their houses because they didn't have any money. It was all a chain effect. When one problem started it caused another to start and so on. It was really overwelming for immigrants and for some it was so stressful that they moved back to Denmark.




 * Works Cited**

"Danish American - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia." __Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia__. 1 May 2009 .

"Immigration...Scandinavian: The Danes." __American Memory from the Library of Congress - Home Page__. 5 Apr. 2004. 15 May 2009 .

"Moving to America." __The Danish Pioneer Oldest Danish-American Newspaper in USA__. 15 May 2009. 22 May 2009 .

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