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
Germans, in Pennsylvania, 13, 14;
lured by "soul-stealers," 15;
religious communists from, 68 _et seq._;
contrasted with Irish, 124;
immigration tide, 124 _et seq._;
first period of migration, 126-29;
second period of migration, 129-40;
causes of emigration, 130;
sailing conditions, 134;
social life, 137, 140;
laborers, 137, 141;
"Forty-eighters," 137-138;
contribution to America, 139;
newspapers, 139, 142-144;
number of immigrants (1870-1910), 141;
third period of migration, 141-46;
Prussian spirit among later immigrants, 142-44;
propaganda, 143-45;
"exchange professors," 144;
in Great War, 146;
in Johnstown (Penn.), 216;
in Granite City (Ill.), 217;
in coal mines of Pennsylvania, 218
Germantown (Penn.), founded, 13;
Pietists at, 69
Giessener Gesellschaft, 136
Gilbert, Sir Humphrey, 5
Godin, J.B.A., 102
Granite City (Ill.), Bulgarians in, 170;
racial changes in, 217
Great Britain, immigrants from, 103;
record of emigration, 104;
_see also_ England, English, Irish, Scotch, Scotch-Irish, Welsh
Great Lakes, French on, 18
Great War, German newspapers in, 143-44;
soldiers of German descent in, 146;
Poland and, 168;
effect on immigration, 233
Greeks in United States, 183, 217
Greeley, Horace, 97
Guise, only successful Fourieristic colony, 102
Häcker, J.G., quoted, 133-34 (note)
Hadley, Poles in, 214-15
Hakluyt, Richard, quoted, 4
Hamburg, German emigrants embark at, 134
Hammonton (N.J.), Italian colony at, 212
Harmonists, 72-77
Harmony, town established, 73
Harmony Society, 73
Harvard College, 8
Hatchet Men, 193
Haverstraw (N.Y.), communistic attempt at, 96
Havre, German emigrants embark at, 134
Hayes, R.B., vetoes amendment to Burlingame treaty, 197;
appoints commission to negotiate new treaty with China, 198
Hessians, settle in America, 129;
Giessener Gesellschaft, 136
Heynemann, Barbara, leader of Inspirationists, 81, 82
Highbinders, 193
Hindoos in United States, 207
Holland, French Protestants flee to, 15;
Spanish and Portuguese Jews find refuge in, 16-17;
Inspirationists, 80
Holland (Mich.), center of Dutch influence, 153
Homestead Law (1862), 148
"Hooks and Eyes," nickname for Amish, 68 (note)
Houston (Tex.), Italians in, 211
Hudson Valley, Dutch in, 17
Huguenots in Manhattan, 17;
_see also_ French
Hungarians, _see_ Jews, Magyars
Hungary, Mennonites in, 89
Hutter, Jacob, Mennonite martyr, 89
I.W.W., _see_ Industrial Workers of the World
Icaria, 97-101
Icaria-Speranza community, 101
Idaho, Japanese in, 204
Illinois, admitted as State (1818), 33;
frontiersmen in, 36;
"Underground Railway" in, 54;
negroes in, 62;
Bishop Hill Colony, 85-89;
Swedish immigration, 91;
Icarians in, 99-100;
Germans in, 134, 137;
Norwegians, 155;
Scandinavians in, 156;
Poles in, 160, 167, 213;
Slovenians in, 173;
racial changes in coal regions of, 219
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