Norway

**__Norway__** Immigrants from Norway started to come to America in 1838. Usually people who were single and looking for love came to america. Usually people who were single and looking for love came to america. In 1843 more than 1,600 people came to america from Norway. Beetween 1866-1870 times were really bad in Norway 15,000 people moved to America. Still interested. [|Click here]

People from America wanted to immigrate because they wanted to leave hardship, hunger, and/or to escape injustice. [|More information here.]  The 10 states with the most Norwegian Americans: Some counties that Norwegian people settled in were Dunn, Barron, LaFayette, Vernon, Jackson, LaCrosse, Eau Claire, and Trempealeau. Some cities that are Norwegian names are Norway, Stoughton, and Westby.
 * 1)  __Minnesota__ : 850,742
 * 2)  __Wisconsin__ : 454,831
 * 3)  __California__ : 436,128
 * 4)  __Washington__ : 367,508
 * 5)  __North Dakota__ : 193,158
 * 6)  __Illinois__ : 178,923
 * 7)  __Iowa__ : 166,667
 * 8)  __Oregon__ : 147,262
 * 9)  __Texas__ : 118,968
 * 10)  __South Dakota__ : 115,292

Hans Christian Heg was a guy from Norway that was mainly responsible for establishing the 15th Wisconsin Volunteers. Norwegians brought a lot of farming to Wisconsin. Paris Hilton is very famous and you know what, she's from Norway. Still interested, here is another. [|Click here]

Problems they had in America are that they had to find a home, a job, and learning English. The biggest problem was probally learning English.

Norway people came across the atlantic ocean. For more information [|click here] [|Click here to play games] To learn more about [|immigrants from Norway] click there, or you can [|click here]. To eat some taste [|Norweigan treats]click there, [|here], or [|here].