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=**Norwegian immigrants**=

You don't really think about them, but their still here, still coming, they're immigrants and they're our ancetors without them we would not be here in this wonderful world along with our family.This book will talk about why did the Norweigans come to america, where they were going, finally it will talk about the impacts the move had on them and us. The reasons peole left Norway, and there are quite a few. Some left for a bettter living because in Norway they were not getting paid very well when they worked hard at what they did and they had to feed their family, which was hard work, what if someone had 12 kids and lived in Norway and they were only getting paid $175 a month which is not enough to feed the whole intire family, the family would have to get small porshions of food if they wanted to eat until they got paid next month. America on the other hand you got fed well because they paid you what you deserved and you got to feed your family and yourself.That's one of the reasons they left. Another reason they left was for oppurtunities, in Norway they did not have the same oppurtunities as America had,and if they had moved here they would have gotten food, a job, a nicer home, more farming land and the biggest one of all **FREEDOM.** You may ask yourself why did they leave for all thease oppurtunities, just to let you know not every country had thease oppurtunities but we did, still do and will always have thease kinds of oppurtunities, they did not always have thease oppurtunities in Norway.

Where did they go, you may inquier. Norway's people mostly came to the united states because you had a better chance of going to school and if you went to school you would have a better chance of getting a good job and getting money to buy a house and food, that's why I think they came here in the 1800's.

The impacts this move had on them and us were good and bad. This move took place on a ship where lots of people got sick and very sadly died while they were coming over here to the U.S.A, they had to cross a log body of water without very much food and water. Here I have a quote from Josiah Munson who emmigrated over here with his family " On the third and fourth day my mother and many other passengers were sick" ah I told you many people got sick on the boat coming over, let's countinue "they pictured they U.S very wealthy. I don't remembr having any language diffuculty. English at the age of 6 came easy but for many years we talked Norwegian at home." They had to learn the english but we had already known the language, imagen if you had been talking Norwegian for 60 years and you had to learn english that would be hard to do. When you moved over here and touched they land you had to go through Ellis Island and that's when the worries began (will I get in or will I be rejected. What are they going to do to me are they going to hurt me) and if you maneged to make it through Ellis you would get a job, food and schooling. Something bad that went through the U.S was that the people had called the immigrants guests reffering to them as not true American citizens because they were different but soon over time they got used to the new people and stopped saying that. When they came over it was very crowded because more and more people came, jobs started filling up and soon there was not enough money for the people working at those jobs.

Thanks for letting me share this knowledgeable immformation with you. Now you will not forget about them like you had before, I forgot about them until we started our social studies unit about what it is like to move one place to another with nothing but a few clothes, plus the clothes on your back, a toy and family members. Please try not to forget about thease immigrants and their sturggles, they are important and impacted our future because without them we would not be here today, none of us.