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Drar igang till Kansas
(Going to Kansas)
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Your Passport For a Trip FRom SWeden to Kansas
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PART I: BACKGROUND
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Your Route To Kansas
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Research Question:
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Why did immigration
to America from Sweden occur between the years of 1875 and 1890?
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How does the rate
of immigration to Prairie Township, Wyandotte County, Kansas compare to
the rate of immigration to the United States of America during these years?
Definitions
Immigration
is coming to a foreign country or region to live there.
An immigrant
is a person who comes to a foreign country to region to live there.
Background Information
Between the years of 1851
and 1930, nearly 1.4 million Swedes left Sweden. Of those 1.4 million
who left Sweden , nearly 1.2 million immigrated to the United States
of America.1 Some of the Swedish immigrants
came to Wyandotte County, Kansas. Wyandotte
County has five (5) townships: Wyandotte, Delaware, Shawnee,
Quindaro, and Prairie. Prairie township, located in the northwest
corner of Wyandotte County, was primarily a farming area and attracted
many of the Swedish immigrants. A Swedish community grew in the area
of Wolcott, KS, also referred to as Connor City, KS. This led to
us to begin our search in this area.
Visit
the Artifact Page: Papers and Images of Otto Anderkfoss's Journey to America
Map
of
Wyandotte
County, Prairie Township
1. Thernstrom, Stephan. Harvard
Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups. Massachusetts:
Harvard University Press, 1980.
Click
here for ASSIGNMENT #1.
Sweden is one of three countries called
the Scandinavian countries. Norway and Denmark are the others.
This group is found in the northern most part of Europe and west of Russia.
In 1890, Ida and Anna Anderson left Gothenberg,
Sweden and began their journey to the United States. They set sail
on November 27th and their first port of call was Hull, England.
Click
the ticket to read the ticket
they
used to begin their new lives.
Read the ticket and discover how they traveled
from Hull to Liverpool, England. You will also learn that from Liverpool
they sailed to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and then to Chanute, Kansas.
Click world map for larger
copy then.
Go to the PRINT command at the
top
and print one copy of this.
After printing out the world map draw
a line showing the route of Ida and Anna. Use the scale to estimate
how far they traveled from home. Use this page as part of your final
report.
