Although the Scandinavian-Americanists argued the development of modern Scandinavian-Americanism occurred in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, some Scandinavian-Americanists frame their works with Sweden’s bid at New World colonization as an attempt to give context to the desire for future Scandinavian and particularly Swedish migration movements to North America. First begun in 1638, the colony of New Sweden first introduced Swedes and Scandinavians to the post-Columbian perceptions of the New World. In conclusion the endeavor of Swedish colonization was a failure in terms of long-term establishment of a Swedish presence in mainland North America. In the end the colony fell into the hands of the Dutch and later the English. H.
