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
Swedes, in America, 85, 154, 155-56;
"Frenchmen of the North," 154;
_see also_ Scandinavians
Switzerland, Inspirationists from, 80;
immigration from, 104;
number of immigrants, 153
Syrians, as laborers, 122;
in United States, 184;
in Johnstown (Penn.), 216
Tacoma, anti-Chinese feeling, 200
Taft, W.H. vetoes literacy test provision (1913), 231
Tammany Hall, 116
Tennessee, not represented in First Census, 25;
admitted as State (1796), 33;
pioneers leave, 36
Texas, added to United States, 33;
Icarians in, 99;
Fourieristic community in, 101-02;
Mainzer Adelsverein in, 136;
Bohemians in, 159;
Poles in, 160, 167;
Italian colonies, 211;
Slavs in, 213
Thompson, Holland, _The New South_, cited, 60 (note)
Tillinghast, _The Negro in Africa_, quoted, 49
Tokyo, anti-American feeling, 207
Tone, Wolfe, portrait on Fenian bonds by, 119
Transportation, development of, 149
_Tribune_, New York, Brisbane and, 97
Troost, Gerard, 95
Turks in United States, 184
_Turnvereine_, 131, 137
Tuskegee Institute, 63
Ukranians, _see_ Ruthenians
Ulster, Scotch in, 10
Ulstermen, _see_ Scotch-Irish
"Underground Railway," 54
United States, now called America, 22;
population at close of Revolution, 23;
American stock, 23;
census (1790), 24;
names changed or disappeared, 24-25 (note);
population (1820), 32;
Irish population, 105;
expansion, 147-48;
nation of immigrants, 233;
_see also_ America
United States Steel Corporation builds Gary (Ind.), 216-17
Unonius, Gustavus, 155
Utopias in America, 66 _et seq._;
bibliography, 238-39
Vermont, slaves emancipated, 51
Vespucci, Amerigo, claim of discovery recognized, 21
Vineland (N.J.), Italian colony at, 212
Virginia, English occupation (1607), 1;
English in, 5;
protests receiving criminals, 9;
Scotch-Irish in, 11, 12;
French in, 15;
slavery, 47, 50;
insurrection (1831), 53-54;
Irish in, 105;
Germans in, 127;
racial changes in coal regions of, 219
Vorstmann, _see_ Sluyter
Waldenses in Manhattan, 17
Waldseemüller, Martin, and name America, 21
Ward's Island, hospitals for immigrants on, 224
Ware, Poles in, 214
Washington, Booker T., 63
Washington, George, on name America, 21;
on spread of native population, 34;
order of March 17, 1776, 108
Washington (State), Scandinavians in, 156;
Japanese in, 203, 204
Washington (D.C.) Owen lectures at, 94;
anti-Japanese demonstration at, 207
Welsh, in United States, 6, 150, 151, 216, 217, 218
West, Far, Germans in, 142;
draws homeseekers, 147;
and land laws, 148;
_see also_ names of States
West Indies, French in, 18;
negro slavery, 47;
Irish transported to, 105;
Irish come through, 109
West, Middle, racial changes in, 216;
_see also_ names of States
West Virginia, Croatians in, 172;
racial changes in, 216, 219
Westfield, Poles in, 214
Whiting (Ind.), foreigners in, 217
Whitney, Eli, cotton gin, 52
Wilcox, W.F., quoted, 62-63
Wilmington, Germans in, 127
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