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1. How and Why did your family come to the United States

2. What were the obstacles that they met?

3. What was going on Historically in the U.S. during this time and did it affect your family?

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My family came down to the United States because my mom’s great grandparents had to move to Brooklyn, NY in 1915 because of famine and war with Russia in Finland. They went to New York because in that time period, most Scandinavians lived there and spoke their language.
The obstacles that they met was famine and war with Russian in Finland and the difficulty to get into America through Ellis Island. My grandma had obstacles such as not finding good medical careers so she moved with her dad in Boston.
Nothing bad in the US was happening during this time, but in 1920, New York extended the right to vote to women.