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
Say, Thomas, "Father of American Zoölogy," 95
Scandinavians in United States, 85, 153-59, 185
Schleswig-Holstein, Danes emigrate from, 156
Schluter, _see_ Sluyter
Schmitz, Mayor of San Francisco, 205
Schurz, Carl, 139
Scioto Land Company (Companie du Scioto), 151-52
Scotch, in America, 6, 12-13;
in Manhattan, 17;
immigrants, 110, 150;
on the land, 151;
in coal mines of Pennsylvania, 218
Scotch-Irish, in America, 6, 10, 11;
in Pennsylvania, 11-12, 12 (note);
names, 30-31
Seattle, Bulgarians in, 170;
anti-Chinese feeling, 200
Seneca Indians Reservation, Inspirationists purchase (1841), 81
Serbians, as South Slavs, 164;
in United States, 171, 217
Seward, W.H., Secretary of State, treaty with China (1868), 195-96
_Shaker Compendium_ quoted, 91
Shakers, 91-92
Shaw, Albert, _Icaria, A Chapter in the History of Communism_, quoted, 100
Siberia, Russian immigrants to, 170 (note)
Sicilians, 182;
_see also_ Italians
Silkville (Kan.), French communistic colony in, 102
Six Companies, Chinese organization, 192, 193
Slavery, as recognized institution, 9, 50;
Channing on, 46-47;
protests against, 51;
influence of cotton demand on, 52-53;
fugitive slaves, 54-55;
condition when emancipated, 56-57;
Germans against, 139;
_see also_ Negroes, Slave trade
Slave trade, beginning of, 47;
capture and transportation of slaves, 47-50;
law prohibiting, 55;
effect of cotton demand on, 55-56
Slavonians on Pacific slope, 213
Slavs, use of term, 164;
on poor land, 210;
colonies, 212-213;
in New England mills, 214, 215;
in Pennsylvania, 216, 217, 218;
_see also_ Bohemians, Bulgarians, Croatians, Dalmatians,
Montenegrins, Poles, Russians, Ruthenians, Serbians, Slovaks,
Slovenians
Slovaks, as North Slavs, 164;
in United States, 168-69, 216, 217;
_see also_ Slavs
Slovenians, as South Slavs, 164;
"Griners," 172;
_see also_ Slavs
Sluyter, Peter (or Schluter), (Vorstmann), leader of Labadists, 68
Snow Hill (Penn.), community, 72
Society of United Irishmen, 109
South, plantations lure English, 7;
Scotch-Irish in, 12;
cotton production, 52-53;
Reconstruction, 57-59;
opposes liberal land laws, 148;
immigrants in cut-over timber regions, 208;
opportunities for immigrants in, 210
South Carolina, French in, 15;
slave laws, 50;
insurrection (1822), 53;
Germans in, 127
South Dakota, Old Elmspring Community, 89
Spain, England's victory over, 2;
France cedes New Orleans to, 18
Spanish-Americans in California, 190
Standard Oil Company builds Whiting (Ind.), 217
Steiner, E.A., _On the Trail of the Immigrant_, quoted, 166, 178-79
Stephens, James, 119
Sullivan, General John, order of March 17, 1776, 108
Sunnyside (Ark.), Italians establish (1895), 211
Supreme Court, Chief Justices from American stock, 42;
upholds communal contract, 73;
upholds exclusion, 200;
on state regulation of immigration, 225
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