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| Packing a traveler's trunk offers students the opportunity to take a closer look at the immigrant experience in this lesson |
| Date: | 1848 |
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| Description: | Immigrant map. |
| Date: | 11 22 1848 |
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| Description: | Frontispiece from a passport issued to Benedict Goldenberger from the canton of Aargau, Switzerland. He left Aargau in 1851, went to Massachussetts, and th... |
| Leart about Dutch immigration to Wisconsin, which peaked between 1840 and 1890 and was divided into Protestant and Catholic group. |
| Learn about the Hungarian immigrants who came to Wisconsin from the 19th century through the post-World War II era. |
| Wisconsin Civil War Soldier, U. S. Senator, German-Language Newpaper Editor |
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| Read about Carl Schurz, the German immigrant and political reformer who helped elect President Lincoln, fought in the Civil War, served as a U.S. Senator. |
| Founder of Sauk City |
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| Read about Agoston Haraszthy, the Hungarian immigrant who founded Sauk City and planted the first hops in Wisconsin. |
| Wisconsin Civil War Officer, Politician |
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| Read about the Norwegian immigrant who became colonel to the predominately Norwegian 15th Wisconsin Infantry during the Civil War. |
| Wisconsin Historical Museum Object – Feature Story |
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| Decorated trunk brought to Wisconsin from Norway by immigrant Mette Kristina Larsdotter Mokrid, c. 1845. (Museum object #2000.77.1) |
| Too Progressive for Wisconsin |
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| Discover why Wisconsin's 1846 was re-written and passed in 1848 |
| Europeans Come to Wisconsin |
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| Discover how Native Americans were removed from their lands in Wisconsin to make room for European immigrants. |
| How a Disaster Made Wisconsin the Dairy State |
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| Discover how Wisconsin became the nation's leader in wheat long before it was renowned for dairy, and the disaster that made it all possible. |
| Date: | 1849 |
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| Description: | Sixth plate daguerreotype of Lamont and his wife, Scottish immigrants. Waist-up portrait, seated facing forward. He is wearing a suit and tie, and she is w... |
| Date: | 05 19 1849 |
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| Description: | Page one of the "Neue Rheinische Zeitung," a German newspaper published by Karl Marx in Cologne. |
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