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.

Bohemians, in United States, 159-60, 165-66;
  as North Slavs, 164;
  on the prairies, 213;
  on Pacific slope, 213

Boston, immigrants from Ireland (1714-20), 11;
  French in, 16;
  Irish in, 108, 113;
  Germans in, 127;
  Italians in, 180;
  condition of immigrants landing in, 224

Boudinot, Elias, 16

Bowdoin, James, 16

Bremen, German emigrants embark at, 134

Bremer, Frederika, quoted, 155

Brisbane, Arthur, Social Destiny of Man, 96

Brook Farm, 97

Bryan, W.J., Secretary of State, and California Alien Land Act, 206

Bryan (Tex.) Italian colony, 211

Buffalo, Inspirationists near, 81;
  Irish in, 113;
  Germans in, 135;
  Poles in, 167 (note)

Bulgarians, as South Slavs, 164;
  in United States, 170;
  in Granite City (Ill.), 170, 217

Burlingame, Anson, 195

Burlingame treaty, 195-96, 197

Burschenschaften, 131

Butler County (Penn.), Harmonists in, 73

Butte, Bulgarians in, 170

Cabet, Etienne, 97-98, 99, 100;
  Voyage en Icarie, 98;
  Le Populaire, 98

Cabinet, President’s, majority of members from American stock, 42

Cabot, John, 2

Cabot, Sebastian, 2

Cahokia, French settlement, 152

California, frontiersmen in, 36, 37;
  Icaria-Speranza community, 101;
  Swiss in, 153;
  Dalmatians in, 171;
  Portuguese in, 184;
  discovery of gold, 188;
  Chinese in, 189-190;
  “California for Americans,” 190;
  constitution (1879), 194;
  legislation against Chinese, 194-95;
  vote for Garfield (1880), 197 (note);
  Japanese in, 203;
  Alien Land Act (1913), 206;
  Italians in, 211

Campo Bello, Island, Fenians attempt to land on, 119

Canada, fugitive slaves, 54;
  Irish come through, 109;
  Fenian raids, 120;
  deflects migration to United States, 150

Carbonari, Cabet and, 98

Carolinas, English settle, 5;
  Scotch-Irish in, 12;
  Scotch in, 12;
  Germans in, 14;
  cosmopolitan character of, 18;
  Irish in, 105;
  see also North Carolina, South Carolina

Castle Garden, landing place for immigrants in New York, 224, 225

Catholics, in Maryland, 13;
  Irish, 114;
  prejudice against, 115-16;
  American Protective Association against, 222

Census (1790), 24-25, 29;
  A Century of Population Growth (1909), 24;
  (1800), 25;
  tables, 26-28;
  (1900), 38-39;
  slaves in United States, 47;
  Bulletin No. 129, Negroes in the United States, cited, 61 (note);
  (1910), Germans in United States, 125;
  foreigners in United States, 125-26 (note);
  foreign born on farms, 150-51 (note), 161;
  Italians in New York City, 180 (note);
  distribution of American white population, 187

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