attitude toward Chinese, 193, 194;
  treaty limiting Chinese,198;
  bill to prohibit immigration of Chinese, 199;
  Scott Act, 201;
  Japanese, 204;
  racial changes in, 216-17;
  law to aid importation of contract labor, 222;
  contract labor excluded, 225

Lafayette, Marquis de, visits Gallipolis, 152

Land, immigrants on the, 147 et seq.;
  immigrants on abandoned or rejected land, 208-214

Laurens, Henry, 16

Lawrence (Mass.), racial changes in, 215-16

Lee, Ann, founder of Shakers, 91, 92

Legislation, negro, 59-60;
  Chinese immigration, 199-200, 201-03;
  California Alien Land Act, 206-07;
  immigration, 222 et seq.

Lehigh River, Moravian community on, 72

Lehman, Peter, 72

Lesueur, C.A., 95

Levant, immigrants from the, 184

Limestone Ridge, Battle of, 120

Lincoln, Abraham, father a pioneer, 36;
  message to Congress Dec. 8, 1863, 222

Literacy test for immigrants, in Lodge bill, 227;
  rejected in law of 1903, 228-29;
  executive disapproval of, 231;
  bill passes over veto (1917), 232;
  provisions of act, 232

Lithuanians in United States, 174-75

Liverpool, Irish immigrants at, 111, 112 (note)

Lockwood, G.B., The New Harmony Movement, cited, 96 (note)

Lodge, H.C., The Distribution of Ability in the United States, 39-41, 43;
  immigration bill, 227

Logan, James, Secretary of Province of Pennsylvania, on Scotch-Irish, 11-12

London, German emigrants embark at, 134

Los Angeles, anti-Chinese riots, 191

Louis Philippe visits Gallipolis, 152

Louisiana, admitted as State (1812), 33;
  American migration to, 34;
  Icarians in, 99;
  Italians in, 211

Louisiana Purchase (1803), 147

McCall, of Massachusetts, introduces Lodge bill in House, 227

McCarthy, Justin, quoted, 106;
  cited, 107

Macedonia, Bulgarians from, 170

McGee, T. D’A., leader of “Young Ireland” party, 120-121

Maclure, William, “Father of American Geology,” 94-95

Macluria (Ind.), communistic attempt, 96

McMaster, J.B., History of the People of the United States, quoted, 152

McParlan, James, 118

Macy, Jesse, The Anti-Slavery Crusade, cited, 54 (note)

Madison, James, on population of New England, 34

Madison (Ill.), racial changes in, 217

Magyars, distinct race, 174;
  in United States, 175-76;
  in Granite City (Ill.), 217

Maine, Shakers in, 91

Mainzer Adelsverein, 136

Manchester (England), Shakers originate in, 91

Manhattan, Jewish synagogue in (1691), 16;
  Dutch in, 17;
  cosmopolitan character, 17;
  Norwegian Quakers land on, 155;
  see also New York City