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.

Marion, Francis, 16

Marx, Karl, 179

Maryland, English settle, 5-6;
  recruits schoolmasters from criminals, 9;
  Scotch-Irish in, 11, 12;
  Scotch in, 12;
  Irish in, 13;
  Germans in, 127;
  Poles in, 213

Massachusetts, French in, 15;
  Shakers in, 91;
  Brook Farm, 97

Mather, Cotton, on Scotch-Irish, 11

Mayer, Brantz, Captain Canot:  or Twenty Years in a Slaver, quoted, 48

Meade, General, against Fenians, 120

Mennonites, 13, 68 (note)

Mercury, New York, quoted, 108

Metz, Christian, leader of Inspirationists, 81, 82

Mexican War extends United States territory, 33, 148

Mexicans, feeling against, in California, 190

Michigan, admitted as State (1837), 33;
  Germans in, 134;
  Scotch and English in, 151;
  Dutch in, 153;
  Scandinavians in, 156;
  farms for sale in, 209;
  Slavs in, 212;
  racial changes in ore regions of, 219

Mikkelsen, quoted, 90-91

Milwaukee, “the German Athens,” 135;
  Poles in, 167 (note)

Minnesota, frontiersmen in, 36;
  Scandinavians in, 157;
  “Scandinavian language” in university, 158-59;
  Slavs in, 212;
  racial changes in ore regions of, 219

Mississippi, admitted as State (1817), 33;
  American migration to, 34;
  Dalmatians in, 171

Mississippi River, French on, 18

Mississippi Valley, fugitive slaves in, 54;
  Irish in, 108;
  German influence, 135;
  French in, 152;
  Bohemians in, 159

Missouri, admitted as State (1821), 33;
  frontiersmen in, 36;
  Germans in, 134;
  Giessener Gesellschaft in, 136

Mohawk Valley, Germans in, 127

Molly Maguires, society among anthracite coal miners, 117-118

Monroe, James, and Owen, 94

Montenegrins, as South Slavs, 164;
  in United States, 171

Moravians, 13, 17, 72, 165

More, Sir Thomas, Utopia, 98

Mormons, 87

Mount Lebanon, Shaker community, 91

Mount Vernon, nationalities represented on July 4, 1918, at, 233

Names, disappearance of, 24-25 (note); modifications, 30

Nantes, Edict of, revocation of, 15

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 63

National Civil Federation calls immigration conference (1905), 229

Nauvoo (Ill.), Icarians at, 99-100, 101

Navigation Laws, 106

Nebraska, Germans in, 141;
  Scandinavians in, 156;
  Bohemians in, 159;
  Slavs in, 213

Neef, Joseph, 95

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