Mather, Cotton, on Scotch-Irish, 11 Mayer, Brantz, _Captain Canot: or Twenty Years in a Slaver_, quoted, 48 Meade, General, against Fenians, 120 Mennonites, 13, 68 (note) _Mercury_, New York, quoted, 108 Metz, Christian, leader of Inspirationists, 81, 82 Mexican War extends United States territory, 33, 148 Mexicans, feeling against, in California, 190 Michigan, admitted as State (1837), 33; Germans in, 134; Scotch and English in, 151; Dutch in, 153; Scandinavians in, 156; farms for sale in, 209; Slavs in, 212; racial changes in ore regions of, 219 Mikkelsen, quoted, 90-91 Milwaukee, "the German Athens," 135; Poles in, 167 (note) Minnesota, frontiersmen in, 36; Scandinavians in, 157; "Scandinavian language" in university, 158-59; Slavs in, 212; racial changes in ore regions of, 219 Mississippi, admitted as State (1817), 33; American migration to, 34; Dalmatians in, 171 Mississippi River, French on, 18 Mississippi Valley, fugitive slaves in, 54; Irish in, 108; German influence, 135; French in, 152; Bohemians in, 159 Missouri, admitted as State (1821), 33; frontiersmen in, 36; Germans in, 134; Giessener Gesellschaft in, 136 Mohawk Valley, Germans in, 127 Molly Maguires, society among anthracite coal miners, 117-118 Monroe, James, and Owen, 94 Montenegrins, as South Slavs, 164; in United States, 171 Moravians, 13, 17, 72, 165 More, Sir Thomas, _Utopia_, 98 Mormons, 87 Mount Lebanon, Shaker community, 91 Mount Vernon, nationalities represented on July 4, 1918, at, 233 Names, disappearance of, 24-25 (note); modifications, 30 Nantes, Edict of, revocation of, 15 National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 63 National Civil Federation calls immigration conference (1905), 229 Nauvoo (Ill.), Icarians at, 99-100, 101 Navigation Laws, 106 Nebraska, Germans in, 141; Scandinavians in, 156; Bohemians in, 159; Slavs in, 213 Neef, Joseph, 95 Negroes, 45 _et seq._; identified with America, 45; most distinctly foreign element, 46; tribes represented among slaves, 49; mutual benefit organizations, 51-52, 63; population (1860), 56; education, 57; religion, 57; as farmers, 59-60; advance, 64; characteristics shown by neglected gardens, 64-65; bibliography, 236-37; _see also_ Africans, Slavery, Slave trade Nevada, vote for Garfield (1880), 197 (note) New Amsterdam, Jews come to, 16 New Bedford, Portuguese in, 184 New Bern, Germans in, 127 New England, English settle, 5-6; dissenters found, 8; Scotch-Irish leave, 11; Dutch and, 17; Madison on population of, 34; slavery, 51; "Underground Railway" in, 54; capital in slave trade, 56; Montenegrins and Serbians in, 171; Portuguese in, 184; abandoned farms, 209; Poles in, 213; Slavs in, 214; racial changes in mills, 215-16 _New Era_ founded by McGee, 121 (note) New Hampshire, Shakers in, 91