Who Is Nilsen Daley's Argumentative Essay

In this genealogy, I will be considering my husband great great grandmother Vestromhagen, Sigrid (Sarah). She was born in Hedalen, Valdres Sor Aurdal Oppland, Norway; baptized Oct 12, 1845, Hedalen Stave Kirke. She immigrated in 1862 to Iowa County, WI. later married Nils Nilsen Daley who was born in Bratstolhovde Nord Aurdal, Norway. What is interesting is that her great great grandparents were full 3rd cousins. Here, is a little history of where her parents lived which was on a farm named Tetrud and in 1865 the census listed them as having 1 cow, 6 sheep, 1 goat ¾ barrels of blandkorn and 1 ½ barrels of potatoes. They live with just enough to survive. Her father was the oldest child out of six and his father was Jorgen Eriksen Grov …show more content…
He would have no other option but to invade and take Denmark. Therefore, Frederik made the choice to hand over the country and the peace agreement was sign in January 1814. But the Norwegian people were very upset and did not agree to this because no Norwegian were present when this was deliberated. Thus, when Karl Johan conveyed this message to Norway of being a sovereign kingdom and unified with Sweden the people were very distraught. What he didn’t realize was that Frederik was playing both sides when it came to Sweden and the Great Powers (Yilek 128-30). So, because of this, it caused a war between the Norwegian and the Swedish. But the end results were that the Norwegian had decided to give up Fredrikstad due to telling the army to retreat because of his inexperience in war (Yilek 141). The Norwegians were upset how the war was being run so they decided to go alone and they did very well by winning three skirmishes and because of this Sweden pull out to go back to the border. Also, Karl Johan was concern about fighting in the cold and attempting to join the union. Therefore, he did not want anything to influences the Great Powers from changing their minds to create the union with both our countries. Thus, he decided to meet with the Norwegians for a compromise where they agree to the rules formed by the Moss Convention and the war ended August 14, 1814 (Yilek 142). Then in Sept. of 1814 the first Storting and the union of Norway and Sweden held a conference. But one the main areas of concern was that the people of Norway did not agree with the union of both countries. One of the first meetings was to vote on the union and this needed to be done by the closing date of the Moss Convention. Even though some disagree the