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8’ivedes Outside of Sweden 391
Swedish possessions. Others live in various parts of
the world outside of Europe. Most of these are found
in North America : in the United States and Canada.
Immigration to the United States. Swedish immi-
gration to the United States began in real earnest near
the middle of the nineteenth century, and after the
close of the Civil War, in 1865, for over a quarter of
a century it was very large.
These immigrants settled almost wholly in the north-
ern states, where the climate corresponds more nearly
to that of their old homeland. Most of them founded
homes in the Middle West, where the bulk of them
turned to agricultural pursuits. Many of them also
helped to build up the cities of the Northwest. They
and their descendants now form a substantial part of
the population of Chicago and Minneapolis and of
many other cities. Chicago now has the third largest
population of Swedish extraction of any city, exceeded
only by Stockholm and Gothenburg. Some of the earlier
and much of the later immigration also settled in. the
East, in New England, New York, and Pennsylvania.
Adaptability of the Swedes. These immigrants have
found very little difficulty in adapting themselves to
the political and social conditions in the United States,
for these conditions are much the same as those they
were accustomed to in their mother country.
Organizations. Among their many organizations, re-
ligious and social, the Evangelical Lutheran Augustana
Synod ranks first, numbering more than a third of a
million people.
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