Our Foreigners: A Chronicle of Americans in the MakingOrth, Samuel Peter
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Our Foreigners: A Chronicle of Americans in the Making
Orth, Samuel Peter
Immigrants -- United States; United States -- Emigration and immigration
Boston, immigrants from Ireland (1714-20), 11;
French in, 16;
Irish in, 108, 113;
Germans in, 127;
Italians in, 180;
condition of immigrants landing in, 224
Boudinot, Elias, 16
Bowdoin, James, 16
Bremen, German emigrants embark at, 134
Bremer, Frederika, quoted, 155
Brisbane, Arthur, _Social Destiny of Man_, 96
Brook Farm, 97
Bryan, W.J., Secretary of State, and California Alien Land Act, 206
Bryan (Tex.) Italian colony, 211
Buffalo, Inspirationists near, 81;
Irish in, 113;
Germans in, 135;
Poles in, 167 (note)
Bulgarians, as South Slavs, 164;
in United States, 170;
in Granite City (Ill.), 170, 217
Burlingame, Anson, 195
Burlingame treaty, 195-96, 197
_Burschenschaften_, 131
Butler County (Penn.), Harmonists in, 73
Butte, Bulgarians in, 170
Cabet, Étienne, 97-98, 99, 100;
_Voyage en Icarie_, 98;
_Le Populaire_, 98
Cabinet, President's, majority of members from American stock, 42
Cabot, John, 2
Cabot, Sebastian, 2
Cahokia, French settlement, 152
California, frontiersmen in, 36, 37;
Icaria-Speranza community, 101;
Swiss in, 153;
Dalmatians in, 171;
Portuguese in, 184;
discovery of gold, 188;
Chinese in, 189-190;
"California for Americans," 190;
constitution (1879), 194;
legislation against Chinese, 194-95;
vote for Garfield (1880), 197 (note);
Japanese in, 203;
Alien Land Act (1913), 206;
Italians in, 211
Campo Bello, Island, Fenians attempt to land on, 119
Canada, fugitive slaves, 54;
Irish come through, 109;
Fenian raids, 120;
deflects migration to United States, 150
Carbonari, Cabet and, 98
Carolinas, English settle, 5;
Scotch-Irish in, 12;
Scotch in, 12;
Germans in, 14;
cosmopolitan character of, 18;
Irish in, 105;
_see also_ North Carolina, South Carolina
Castle Garden, landing place for immigrants in New York, 224, 225
Catholics, in Maryland, 13;
Irish, 114;
prejudice against, 115-16;
American Protective Association against, 222
Census (1790), 24-25, 29;
_A Century of Population Growth_ (1909), 24;
(1800), 25;
tables, 26-28;
(1900), 38-39;
slaves in United States, 47;
Bulletin No. 129, _Negroes in the United States_, cited, 61 (note);
(1910), Germans in United States, 125;
foreigners in United States, 125-26 (note);
foreign born on farms, 150-51 (note), 161;
Italians in New York City, 180 (note);
distribution of American white population, 187
Channing, Edward, _History of the United States_, quoted, 46-47
Charleroi (Penn.), foreigners in, 217
Charleston (S.C.), French in, 16;
Germans in, 127
Charlestown (Mass.), Ursuline convent burned, 116
Cheltenham, Icarians in, 100
Chestnutt, C.W., negro novelist, 64
Chicago, Irish in, 113;
Germans in, 135;
Bohemians in, 165;
Poles in, 167 (note);
Bulgarians in, 170;
Hungarian Jews in, 178;
Italians in, 180;
papers announce land for sale, 209
Chicopee, Poles in, 214
China, Burlingame treaty, 195-196, 197;
treaty (1880), 198-199;
treaty (1894), 202
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