Then, why did the Danish come to America?
The Danish immigrants of the 19th century were unique, however, in that they came to North America as part of the first mass influx of the pilgrims of a new religion: the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. For centuries, small groups of Danes had visited and lived on the shores of the New World.
Similarly, who immigrated to the US in the 1900s? The principal source of immigrants was now southern and eastern Europe, especially Italy, Poland, and Russia, countries quite different in culture and language from the United States, and many immigrants had difficulty adjusting to life here.
Correspondingly, how many Danish people are in America?
1,300,000 Americans
Did Denmark colonize America?
Denmark and the former political union of Denmark–Norway had a colonial empire from the 17th through the 20th centuries, large portions of which were found in the Americas. Denmark and Norway in one form or another also maintained land claims in Greenland since the 13th century.
