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
Detroit, Irish in, 113;
Germans in, 135;
Poles in, 167 (note);
Italians in, 180
Devotionalists, 85-89, 90
Douglass, Frederick, 64
DuBois, W.E.B., negro scholar, 64
Duluth, Finnish college near, 160
Dunbar, P.L., negro poet, 64
Dunkards, 70
Dunkers, 13
Dutch, in United States, 17-18;
number of immigrants, 153
Ebenezer Society, 81
Economy, Harmonists establish, 75;
Rapp as leader, 75-76;
as a communistic community, 76-77;
membership, 76 (note);
Amana gains members from, 83
Emmet, Robert, emigration from Ireland after failure of, 105
England, reasons for expansion, 2-3;
imports, 3;
social and religious changes, 6-7;
kidnaping, 8;
emigration of poor, 9, 110, 111;
criminals sent to colonies, 9;
and Ulster, 10;
French Protestants flee to, 15;
Jews in, 16;
industrial revolution and the American negro, 52;
emigration from, 150
English, in Virginia, 1;
in New World, 2-10;
serving class, 8;
Nonconformists in Manhattan, 17;
and Dutch, 17-18;
and French, 18;
on land, 151;
in Johnstown (Penn.), 216;
in Granite City (Ill.), 217;
in coal mines of Pennsylvania, 218
Ephrata, 70-72
Erie, Fort, Fenians hold, 120
Europe, migrations, 1-2;
immigration from, 103;
_see also_ names of peoples
Fairchild, H.P., quoted, 183
Faneuil, Peter, 16
Fenian movement, 118-21
Finns in America, 160, 176, 185
Fiske, John, on Scotch-Irish in colonies, 12 (note);
_The Dutch and Quaker Colonies in America_, cited, 14 (note)
Fitchburg, Poles in, 214
Fleming, W.L., _The Sequel of Appomattox_, cited, 57 (note)
Florida, fugitive slaves in, 54
Follenius quoted, 135-36
Ford, H.J., _The Scotch-Irish in America_, quoted, 31
Forestville (Ind.), communistic attempt, 96
Fourierism in United States, 93, 96-97, 101-02
Franklin, Benjamin, estimates population of Pennsylvania (1774), 12 (note)
Franklin (N.Y.), communistic attempt at, 96
Freedmen's Bureau, 57, 58
French, Protestants leave France, 15;
forts and trading posts of, 18;
in United States, 151-53;
in Charleroi (Penn.), 217;
_see also_ Huguenots
French Canadians in New England, 122, 152, 215
Frontiersmen, 34-36
Gallipolis (O.) settled by French, 151
Galveston, Italians in, 211
Garfield, J.A., and Chinese immigration, 197 (note)
Garland, Hamlin, _A Son of the Middle Border_, 36-37
Gary (Ind.), character of town, 216-17
Genoa (Wis.), Italian colony, 212
Georgia, English settle, 5;
not represented in first census, 25
German-American League, 145
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