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Lecture 9 was about immigration onto the plains. The main immigrants into North Dakota were Norwegians and German Russians. At first the main ethnic group in North Dakota was Norwegians but through the years the Germans have taken the title as the largest ethnic group. For the most part on the plains immigrants tended to stick together making towns that were mostly one ethnic group. When moving over here some immigration was planned carefully by having one man come over and find a good place to live and buying land for the rest of the community to come over as well. This was not the only type of immigration however their was also chain immigration. Chain immigration worked because one family would decide to move over to the plains and eventually when another family from that community decided they were moving to the plains they thought may as well move to the same area as our friends and so it kind of worked like a chain movement. German Russians were primarily from two spots in Russia the Black Sea German Russian, and the Volga German Russians. Onto the plains their was also a large movement of Methodists, and of course their was always other group as well however these were the main movements. On the plains before the immigrants however their was also a group of Yankees usually running the towns before they got there. However most of them waited for the immigrants to get here and settle down then they made a killing selling land to the immigrants and then they left out much richer.

By: Justin Nygaard