Our Foreigners eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 178 pages of information about Our Foreigners.

Our Foreigners eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 178 pages of information about Our Foreigners.

Fenian movement, 118-21

Finns in America, 160, 176, 185

Fiske, John, on Scotch-Irish in colonies, 12 (note);
  The Dutch and Quaker Colonies in America, cited, 14 (note)

Fitchburg, Poles in, 214

Fleming, W.L., The Sequel of Appomattox, cited, 57 (note)

Florida, fugitive slaves in, 54

Follenius quoted, 135-36

Ford, H.J., The Scotch-Irish in America, quoted, 31

Forestville (Ind.), communistic attempt, 96

Fourierism in United States, 93, 96-97, 101-02

Franklin, Benjamin, estimates population of Pennsylvania (1774), 12 (note)

Franklin (N.Y.), communistic attempt at, 96

Freedmen’s Bureau, 57, 58

French, Protestants leave France, 15;
  forts and trading posts of, 18;
  in United States, 151-53;
  in Charleroi (Penn.), 217;
  see also Huguenots

French Canadians in New England, 122, 152, 215

Frontiersmen, 34-36

Gallipolis (O.) settled by French, 151

Galveston, Italians in, 211

Garfield, J.A., and Chinese immigration, 197 (note)

Garland, Hamlin, A Son of the Middle Border, 36-37

Gary (Ind.), character of town, 216-17

Genoa (Wis.), Italian colony, 212

Georgia, English settle, 5;
  not represented in first census, 25

German-American League, 145

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

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