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
Labor, kidnaping of, 8;
indentured service, 9-10;
Scotch political prisoners sold into service, 12-13;
negro, 60-63;
Irish displaced by other nationalities, 121-22;
Italian, 181;
Chinese, 190-91;
attitude toward Chinese, 193, 194;
treaty limiting Chinese,198;
bill to prohibit immigration of Chinese, 199;
Scott Act, 201;
Japanese, 204;
racial changes in, 216-17;
law to aid importation of contract labor, 222;
contract labor excluded, 225
Lafayette, Marquis de, visits Gallipolis, 152
Land, immigrants on the, 147 _et seq._;
immigrants on abandoned or rejected land, 208-214
Laurens, Henry, 16
Lawrence (Mass.), racial changes in, 215-16
Lee, Ann, founder of Shakers, 91, 92
Legislation, negro, 59-60;
Chinese immigration, 199-200, 201-03;
California Alien Land Act, 206-07;
immigration, 222 _et seq._
Lehigh River, Moravian community on, 72
Lehman, Peter, 72
Lesueur, C.A., 95
Levant, immigrants from the, 184
Limestone Ridge, Battle of, 120
Lincoln, Abraham, father a pioneer, 36;
message to Congress Dec. 8, 1863, 222
Literacy test for immigrants, in Lodge bill, 227;
rejected in law of 1903, 228-29;
executive disapproval of, 231;
bill passes over veto (1917), 232;
provisions of act, 232
Lithuanians in United States, 174-75
Liverpool, Irish immigrants at, 111, 112 (note)
Lockwood, G.B., _The New Harmony Movement_, cited, 96 (note)
Lodge, H.C., _The Distribution of Ability in the United States_, 39-41, 43;
immigration bill, 227
Logan, James, Secretary of Province of Pennsylvania, on Scotch-Irish, 11-12
London, German emigrants embark at, 134
Los Angeles, anti-Chinese riots, 191
Louis Philippe visits Gallipolis, 152
Louisiana, admitted as State (1812), 33;
American migration to, 34;
Icarians in, 99;
Italians in, 211
Louisiana Purchase (1803), 147
McCall, of Massachusetts, introduces Lodge bill in House, 227
McCarthy, Justin, quoted, 106;
cited, 107
Macedonia, Bulgarians from, 170
McGee, T. D'A., leader of "Young Ireland" party, 120-121
Maclure, William, "Father of American Geology," 94-95
Macluria (Ind.), communistic attempt, 96
McMaster, J.B., _History of the People of the United States_, quoted, 152
McParlan, James, 118
Macy, Jesse, _The Anti-Slavery Crusade_, cited, 54 (note)
Madison, James, on population of New England, 34
Madison (Ill.), racial changes in, 217
Magyars, distinct race, 174;
in United States, 175-76;
in Granite City (Ill.), 217
Maine, Shakers in, 91
Mainzer Adelsverein, 136
Manchester (England), Shakers originate in, 91
Manhattan, Jewish synagogue in (1691), 16;
Dutch in, 17;
cosmopolitan character, 17;
Norwegian Quakers land on, 155;
_see also_ New York City
Marion, Francis, 16
Marx, Karl, 179
Maryland, English settle, 5-6;
recruits schoolmasters from criminals, 9;
Scotch-Irish in, 11, 12;
Scotch in, 12;
Irish in, 13;
Germans in, 127;
Poles in, 213
Massachusetts, French in, 15;
Shakers in, 91;
Brook Farm, 97
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