What was the program designed to make immigrants more 'Americanized' through schooling called?

What was the program designed to make immigrants more 'Americanized' through schooling called?

• A. Assimilation
• B. Americanization
• C. Integration
• D. Nativism

Answer: (B)

The concept being tested is the Americanization movement, the schooling-based effort to make immigrants adopt American language and customs. This term fits best because these programs were specifically designed to teach English, American history and civics, and ways of participating in American civic life, so newcomers could become part of American society. The phrase became common in the late 19th and early 20th centuries as schools and community programs organized to “Americanize” immigrant communities. While assimilation describes the broader process of blending cultures, and integration is a more general modern idea of including diverse groups, and nativism is anti-immigrant sentiment, Americanization is the label for those organized schooling efforts aimed at rapid cultural adaptation.

The concept being tested is the Americanization movement, the schooling-based effort to make immigrants adopt American language and customs. This term fits best because these programs were specifically designed to teach English, American history and civics, and ways of participating in American civic life, so newcomers could become part of American society. The phrase became common in the late 19th and early 20th centuries as schools and community programs organized to “Americanize” immigrant communities. While assimilation describes the broader process of blending cultures, and integration is a more general modern idea of including diverse groups, and nativism is anti-immigrant sentiment, Americanization is the label for those organized schooling efforts aimed at rapid cultural adaptation.