After the compromise of 1867 the Kingdom of Hungary set out to make itself Hungarian-speaking. The Slovak grammar schools were closed in the 1870s, Matica slovenská — the national cultural society — was shut in 1875, and by 1907 the school laws required Hungarian even in village classrooms. At the same time the sandy Záhorie farms could not feed the families on them, and people left for America in numbers, from Senica as from every village around it. Many sent money home; a good many never came back.Po rakúsko-uhorskom vyrovnaní v roku 1867 sa Uhorsko rozhodlo, že bude maďarské. V sedemdesiatych rokoch zavreli slovenské gymnáziá, v roku 1875 rozpustili Maticu slovenskú a školské zákony z roku 1907 vyžadovali maďarčinu aj v dedinských triedach. V tom istom čase piesočnaté záhorské polia neuživili rodiny, ktoré na nich hospodárili, a ľudia hromadne odchádzali do Ameriky — zo Senice rovnako ako z každej dediny navôkol. Mnohí posielali domov peniaze, mnohí sa už nevrátili.
