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.

Channing, Edward, History of the United States, quoted, 46-47

Charleroi (Penn.), foreigners in, 217

Charleston (S.C.), French in, 16;
  Germans in, 127

Charlestown (Mass.), Ursuline convent burned, 116

Cheltenham, Icarians in, 100

Chestnutt, C.W., negro novelist, 64

Chicago, Irish in, 113;
  Germans in, 135;
  Bohemians in, 165;
  Poles in, 167 (note);
  Bulgarians in, 170;
  Hungarian Jews in, 178;
  Italians in, 180;
  papers announce land for sale, 209

Chicopee, Poles in, 214

China, Burlingame treaty, 195-196, 197;
  treaty (1880), 198-199;
  treaty (1894), 202

Chinese, in United States, 188-203;
  societies, 192;
  mission to United States (1868), 195;
  exclusion act, 199, 201;
  Scott Act, 201;
  Geary law, 201

Cincinnati, Irish in, 113;
  German center, 135

Cities, immigration to, 162 et seq.;
  cosmopolitanism, 185;
  racial changes in, 219-20

Civil Rights Act, 59

Civil War, German immigrants during, 130

Cleveland, Grover, messages to Congress on Chinese agitation, 201;
  vetoes Lodge bill, 227-28

Cleveland, Irish in, 113;
  Germans in, 135;
  Bohemians in, 165;
  Italians in, 180

Cocalico River, cloister of Ephrata on, 70

Colorado, Japanese in, 204

Coman, Industrial History of the United States, cited, 52 (note)

Communistic colonies, 67 et seq.;
  Labadists, 68-69;
  Pietists, 69-70;
  Ephrata, 70-72;
  Snow Hill, 72;
  Bethlehem, 72;
  Harmonist, 72-77;
  Harmony, 73;
  New Harmony, 74-75, 94-96;
  Economy, 75-77;
  Zoar, 78-80;
  Inspirationists, 80-84;
  Ebenezer, 81;
  Amana, 82-84;
  Bishop Hill Colony, 85-89;
  Old Elmspring Community, 89-90;
  Shakers, 91-92;
  Oneida Community, 92-93;
  Robert Owen and, 94-96;
  Brook Farm, 97;
  Fourierism, 96-97, 101-02;
  Icaria, 97-101;
  bibliography, 238-39

Congress, noted members from American stock, 42;
  authorizes Freedmen’s Bureau (1865), 57;
  immigration law (1819), 103;
  laws against German newspapers, 144;
  German-American League incorporated by, 145;
  charter of German-American League revoked, 145;
  Homestead Law (1862), 148;
  grants land to French, 152;
  Cleveland’s special messages, 201;
  Scott Act, 201;
  Geary law, 201;
  extends Chinese exclusion to Hawaii (1898), 202;
  Lincoln’s message, Dec. 8. 1863, 222;
  and regulation of immigration, 225;
  Lodge bill, 227-28;
  Roosevelt’s messages, 229

Connecticut, Shakers in, 91

Connecticut Valley, Poles in, 214-15

Considerant, Victor, 101

Constantinople, cosmopolitanism compared with American cities, 186

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