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115TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 115-931
NATIONAL NORDIC MUSEUM ACT
SEPTEMBER 10, 2018.-Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed
Mr. BISHOP of Utah, from the Committee on Natural Resources,
submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany S. 2857]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 2857) to designate the Nordic Museum in Seattle, Wash-
ington, as the National Nordic Museum, and for other purposes,
having considered the same, report favorably thereon without
amendment and recommend that the bill do pass.
PURPOSE OF THE BILL
The purpose of S. 2857 is to designate the Nordic Museum in Se-
attle, Washington, as the National Nordic Museum.
BACKGROUND AND NEED FOR LEGISLATION
From the mid-19th to mid-20th centuries, about 2.5 million peo-
ple immigrated to the United States from the five Nordic nations
of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden.1 They came to
find new homes and livelihoods in the United States as they were
seeking religious freedom and available farmland after experi-
encing repeated crop failures and religious persecution in their na-
tive lands.2 They settled primarily in the Midwest, with many
'Scandinavian Immigration. Harvard University Library Open Collections Program. Immi-
gration to the United States 1789-1930. http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/immigration/scandina-
vian.html.
2immigration ... Scandinavian. Library of Congress. Classroom Materials for Teachers.
http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/presentationsandactivities/presentations/immi-
gration/scandinavian.html.
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