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In 1783 the United States' Ambassador to Paris, Benjamin Franklin, and the Swedish Ambassador, Count Gustaf Philip Creutz, signed a Treaty of Amity and Commerce. [5] From 1801-02, Sweden was allied with the United States during the First Barbary War, fought against the Barbary corsairs to prevent further disruption of trade in the Mediterranean ...
Factors which brought migration to a trickle were found on both sides of the Atlantic, with restrictions on immigration placed in the United States and improving social and economic conditions in Sweden being the primary factors. [1] Swedish migration to the United States peaked in the decades after the American Civil War (1861–1865).
The mid-19th and early 20th centuries saw a large Swedish emigration to the United States. In 1841, a group composed of former Upsala University students and a couple of relatives established the first Swedish colony west of the Allegheny Mountains on the east shore of Pine Lake 30 miles west of Milwaukee and named their settlement, New Upsala .
Nelson, O. N. History of the Scandinavians and Successful Scandinavians in the United States (2 vol 1904); 886pp online full text also online review; Nelson, Helge. The Swedes and the Swedish Settlements in North America 2 vols. (Lund, 1943) Nelson, Robert J. If We Could Only Come to America... A Story of Swedish Immigrants in the Midwest.
The Sámi, the indigenous people of Sápmi (spanning parts of Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia's Kola Peninsula), have had a limited migration history to North America. Some Sámi individuals, particularly those involved in reindeer herding, migrated to the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries to assist in reindeer-based ...
The Treaty of Amity and Commerce Between the United States and Sweden (Swedish: Svensk-amerikanska vänskaps- och handelstraktaten), officially A treaty of Amity and Commerce concluded between His Majesty the King of Sweden and the United States of North America, was a treaty signed on April 3, 1783 in Paris, France between the United States and the Kingdom of Sweden.
Swedish diaspora in the United States (3 C, 3 P) Pages in category "Sweden–United States relations" The following 24 pages are in this category, out of 24 total.
Sweden became the target destination for deserters because it was the only Western country that openly granted asylum to Vietnam War deserters. [4] Sweden's granting of asylum to deserters worsened relations between Sweden and the United States. In 1969 the United States revoked its ambassador to Sweden in protest. [5]