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Wednesday, May 7, 2008
11.2.3 - The Americanization Movement
Trace the effect of the Americanization movement.
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Anonymous
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Americanization in the nineteenth century. Nineteenth-century Americans expected life in the United States to transform European newcomers into culturally compatible neighbors. While not directing specific "Americanization" efforts toward immigrants, American communities placed faith, in particular, in the common schools to be "culture factories" in which to inculcate principles of republican virtue, and to cultivate American habits and identities. A general pattern of acceptance of diversity and confidence in the workings of America's natural "melting pot" was not obtained until the 1890s.
The 1890s represent a crucial turning point that intensified the salience of ethnicity as an element of national identity, gave rise to the "Americanization movement," and, ultimately, resulted in long-lasting restrictions on immigration. A massive influx of new immigrants, primarily from southern and eastern Europe, combined with the perception of the frontier having closed, accelerated industrialization, rural emigration, recurring economic distress, perceptions of urban disorder and disorganization, labor conflict, and radical political agitation diminished Americans' faith in the naturally absorptive powers of American life and in a laissez-faire approach to immigrant absorption. So, too, did the development of a distinctively racialist ideology that identified Anglo-Saxon descent with authentic American identity and placed the new immigrants into inferior classifications "http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=The+Americanization+Movement+&btnG=Google+Search&safe=active"
I like the quote you found. Please remember to put "quote" marks around entire passages used. I think the article points out some interesting commentary on the lack of ability for Americans to expand west being a contributory factor in our racial ideology. It seems that perhaps discontent with individual and collective national growth, particularly in “disorganized urban centers” could trickle out into a general distrust and distaste for non-Anglo-Saxon Americans. I am curious what you think on this issue? Please do use your own words to reflect and analyze this standard. Do you think there is still a form of “Americanization” today? Do “white” Americans see themselves as superior or do native born Americans (not to be confused with “Native Americans”) feel a superiority regardless of race? Is there an anti-immigrant sentiment today?
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Americanization in the nineteenth century.
Nineteenth-century Americans expected life in the United States to transform European newcomers into culturally compatible neighbors. While not directing specific "Americanization" efforts toward immigrants, American communities placed faith, in particular, in the common schools to be "culture factories" in which to inculcate principles of republican virtue, and to cultivate American habits and identities. A general pattern of acceptance of diversity and confidence in the workings of America's natural "melting pot" was not obtained until the 1890s.
The 1890s represent a crucial turning point that intensified the salience of ethnicity as an element of national identity, gave rise to the "Americanization movement," and, ultimately, resulted in long-lasting restrictions on immigration. A massive influx of new immigrants, primarily from southern and eastern Europe, combined with the perception of the frontier having closed, accelerated industrialization, rural emigration, recurring economic distress, perceptions of urban disorder and disorganization, labor conflict, and radical political agitation diminished Americans' faith in the naturally absorptive powers of American life and in a laissez-faire approach to immigrant absorption. So, too, did the development of a distinctively racialist ideology that identified Anglo-Saxon descent with authentic American identity and placed the new immigrants into inferior classifications
"http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=The+Americanization+Movement+&btnG=Google+Search&safe=active"
Neslee O. P3
Neslee,
I like the quote you found. Please remember to put "quote" marks around entire passages used. I think the article points out some interesting commentary on the lack of ability for Americans to expand west being a contributory factor in our racial ideology. It seems that perhaps discontent with individual and collective national growth, particularly in “disorganized urban centers” could trickle out into a general distrust and distaste for non-Anglo-Saxon Americans. I am curious what you think on this issue? Please do use your own words to reflect and analyze this standard. Do you think there is still a form of “Americanization” today? Do “white” Americans see themselves as superior or do native born Americans (not to be confused with “Native Americans”) feel a superiority regardless of race? Is there an anti-immigrant sentiment today?
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