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.

Population, increase in, 32;
  see also Census

Portland, Italians in, 180

Portuguese in United States, 184

Prairie du Rocher, French settlement, 152

Presbyterians, Scotch-Irish, 10

Presidents of United States from American stock, 42

Price, J.C., negro orator, 64

Quakers, Norwegian, 155

Rafinesque, C.S., 95

Railroads, Chinese laborers on, 190

Raleigh, Sir Walter, 5

Rapp, F.R., adopted son of Father Rapp, 75-76

Rapp, J.G., founder of Harmonists, 73;
  “Father Rapp,” 74;
  at Harmony, 73-74;
  at New Harmony, 74-75;
  at Economy, 75-77

Reconstruction after Civil War, 57-59

Red Bank (N.J.), communistic colony at, 97

Reed, of Missouri, wishes to exclude African immigrants, 232

Republican party on immigration restriction, 226

Restoration (sloop), 155

Revere, Paul, 16

Revolutionary War, Irish in, 108;
  Germans and, 127

Rhode Island, French in, 15;
  Jews in, 17

Rock Springs (Wyo.), anti-Chinese riot, 200

Roosevelt, Theodore, conference with delegation from California, 205;
  on restriction of immigration, 229-30

Root, John, 86-87

Ross, E.A., The Old World in the New, cited, 163 (note)

Rumania, Mennonites in, 89

Rush, Benjamin, Manners of the German Inhabitants of Pennsylvania, 127-29

Russia, Mennonites in, 89

Russians, as North Slavs, 164;
  in United States, 169-70

Ruthenians (Ukranians), as North Slavs, 164;
  in United States, 169

St. Lawrence River, French on, 18

St. Louis, Cabet in, 100;
  Irish in, 113;
  Germans in, 135;
  Hungarian Jews in, 178;
  Italians in, 180

St. Patrick’s Day, observed in Boston (1737), 108;
  in New York City (1762), 108;
  (1776), 108;
  (1784), 109

San Antonio, Italians in, 211

San Francisco, anti-Chinese attitude, 193, 194, 200;
  Japanese excluded from public schools, 205

Savannah, Germans in, 127

Say, Thomas, “Father of American Zooelogy,” 95

Scandinavians in United States, 85, 153-59, 185

Schleswig-Holstein, Danes emigrate from, 156

Schluter, see Sluyter

Schmitz, Mayor of San Francisco, 205

Schurz, Carl, 139

Scioto Land Company (Companie du Scioto), 151-52

Scotch, in America, 6, 12-13;
  in Manhattan, 17;
  immigrants, 110, 150;
  on the land, 151;
  in coal mines of Pennsylvania, 218

Scotch-Irish, in America, 6, 10, 11;
  in Pennsylvania, 11-12, 12 (note);
  names, 30-31

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