Mobergiana
This character researches the journey by reading books about America and the immigration
Who is Robert?
Overcrowding, poverty, and religious conflicts all may be considered one of these
What are push factors?
This kind of document has the information for all the passengers on a vessel
What is a ship manifest?
This major American denomination was the result of many mergers of German and Scandinavian synods up to 1988
What is the ELCA?
This ethnic group was seen by Anglo-Saxon Americans as the “best assimilators”
Who are the Scandinavians?
These characters both emigrate in part to seek freedom from past social stigmas
Who are Arvid and Ulrika of Västergöhl?
The possibility of upward mobility and the freedom to choose employers is one of these
What are pull factors?
This phenomenon is when members of the same household or village relocate to the same area over a number of years
What is chain migration?
As high as 90% of Scandinavian immigrants could claim to be this
What is literate?
This theory held that the various immigrant groups would merge into a new American people
What is the “melting pot”?
This character is drawn to America for the possibilities of religious freedom
Who is Danjel Andreasson?
Cheap land was made available to settlers by this legislation in 1862
What is the Homestead Act?
In the great century of migration, approximately this many Swedes moved to the United States.
What is 1.2-1.3 million?
This prophet from Biskopskulla led his disciples to Western Illinois in 1846.
Who is Eric Jansson?
This historian thought immigrants and their children identified with ethnicity differently according to generation
Who was Marcus Lee Hansen?
Karl-Oskar and Kristina’s farm in Minnesota is named for this place in Sweden
What is Duvemåla?
Railroads sent these people to Scandinavia to promote myths about America
Who are land agents?
Poor immigrants to the colonies could have this paid for them if they entered into multi-year contracts as indentured servants
What is the ship’s fare?
This professor at St. Olaf College wrote a novel series about Norwegian immigrants in 1927
Who is Ole Rølvaag?
This historian famously theorized that immigrants were “uprooted” and experienced a romantic agony
Who is Oscar Handlin?
The director of the 1971 Emigrants film version of Moberg's books
Who is Jan Troell?
In the 1700s, English immigrants to the colonies were outnumbered by these two other European groups
Who are Irish and Germans?
This founder of Hull House aimed to help children of immigrants in the slums acclimate to life in Chicago
Who is Jane Addams?
This college in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan was founded by Finns as Suomi College in 1896
What was Finlandia University?
John Bodnar qualified the theory of "immigration as uprootedness” with this analogy instead
What is “transplantation”?