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.

Switzerland, Inspirationists from, 80;
  immigration from, 104;
  number of immigrants, 153

Syrians, as laborers, 122;
  in United States, 184;
  in Johnstown (Penn.), 216

Tacoma, anti-Chinese feeling, 200

Taft, W.H. vetoes literacy test provision (1913), 231

Tammany Hall, 116

Tennessee, not represented in First Census, 25;
  admitted as State (1796), 33;
  pioneers leave, 36

Texas, added to United States, 33;
  Icarians in, 99;
  Fourieristic community in, 101-02;
  Mainzer Adelsverein in, 136;
  Bohemians in, 159;
  Poles in, 160, 167;
  Italian colonies, 211;
  Slavs in, 213

Thompson, Holland, The New South, cited, 60 (note)

Tillinghast, The Negro in Africa, quoted, 49

Tokyo, anti-American feeling, 207

Tone, Wolfe, portrait on Fenian bonds by, 119

Transportation, development of, 149

Tribune, New York, Brisbane and, 97

Troost, Gerard, 95

Turks in United States, 184

Turnvereine, 131, 137

Tuskegee Institute, 63

Ukranians, see Ruthenians

Ulster, Scotch in, 10

Ulstermen, see Scotch-Irish

“Underground Railway,” 54

United States, now called America, 22;
  population at close of Revolution, 23;
  American stock, 23;
  census (1790), 24;
  names changed or disappeared, 24-25 (note);
  population (1820), 32;
  Irish population, 105;
  expansion, 147-48;
  nation of immigrants, 233;
  see also America

United States Steel Corporation builds Gary (Ind.), 216-17

Unonius, Gustavus, 155

Utopias in America, 66 et seq.;
  bibliography, 238-39

Vermont, slaves emancipated, 51

Vespucci, Amerigo, claim of discovery recognized, 21

Vineland (N.J.), Italian colony at, 212

Virginia, English occupation (1607), 1;
  English in, 5;
  protests receiving criminals, 9;
  Scotch-Irish in, 11, 12;
  French in, 15;
  slavery, 47, 50;
  insurrection (1831), 53-54;
  Irish in, 105;
  Germans in, 127;
  racial changes in coal regions of, 219

Vorstmann, see Sluyter

Waldenses in Manhattan, 17

Waldseemueller, Martin, and name America, 21

Ward’s Island, hospitals for immigrants on, 224

Ware, Poles in, 214

Washington, Booker T., 63

Washington, George, on name America, 21;
  on spread of native population, 34;
  order of March 17, 1776, 108

Washington (State), Scandinavians in, 156;
  Japanese in, 203, 204

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