The name your looking for would be the "Nordic" countries. "Norden" simply means "the North," and these are countries in the northernmost section of the European continent and adjacent islands.
The languages of most Nordic countries have their roots in Old Norse, a north Germanic language spoken in those regions around the 9th to 13th centuries. So today we have Swedish, Norwegian, Icelandic and other Nordic languages. Finnish (spoken in Finland) is actually a language that has roots from elsewhere, from the Uralic family of languages.
The impacts were the political consequences, the reforms demanded a greater religious devotion.
The U.S. treated Native Americans inhumane. The expansion caused the U.S. to take over their land, and forced them to move across west. It was called The Trail Of Tears, due to around 4,000 of them (Cherokee) dying, before even reaching their destination. Death was caused by hunger, disease, and hypothermia. There are now only few people who are Natives today. You can use this information to determine rather or not it should be considered genocide.
Senator of Louisiana Huey Long believed that the New Deal did not adequately help citizens that were poverty stricken.
