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'''Americanization''' is the process of turning an immigrant into an American who shares American values, beliefs and customs. During the World War I period, the government and many private agencies gave high priority to Americanization projects, which usually were successful.
'''Americanization''' is the process of turning an immigrant into an American who shares American values, beliefs and customs. During the World War I period, the government and many private agencies gave high priority to Americanization projects, which usually were successful. The Ford Motor Company had an especially well-publicized program.
Between 1880 and 1924 over 25 million immigrants entered America, changing the composition of America's laboring population. This influx created a movement that aimed to Americanize these new immigrants and thus hasten their acculturation into mainstream America. But Americanization also suggests a broader process that includes the everyday struggle of immigrants to understand their new environment and how they invented ways to cope with it. The main target group included Catholics and Jews from southern and southeastern Europe. Churches, unions and charities attempted to Americanize the new immigrants both formally through structured programs and informally at work through the environment created by management. <ref> James R. Barrett, "Americanization From The Bottom Up: Immigration and the Remaking of the Working Class in the United States, 1880-1930." ''Journal of American History'' 1992 79(3): 996-1020. 0021-8723 </ref>
the "Friends of the Indians," 1880-1900.'' (1973)</ref>
The term has been used since 1907 for the American impact on othere countries.<ref>Samuel E. Moffett, ''The Americanization of Canada.'' (1907); see also Ralph Willett, ''The Americanization of Germany, 1945-1949'' (1989) </ref>
Toledo, Ohio, was typical of several cities that continued Americanization programs into the 1920s. The Toledo Americanization Board in cooperation with the Toledo Board of Education provided classes in English as a second language and Americanization from 1919 until probably 1925; the Toledo International Institute was affiliated with the Young Women's Christian Association and offered English instruction and assistance with naturalization to foreign-born women and girls.
==Other uses==
The term also is used for the cultural transformation of areas brought into the U.S., such as Alaska<ref>Ted C. Hinckley, ''The Americanization of Alaska, 1867-1897'' (1972) </ref>, and on the changes of Native Americans.<ref>Francis P. Prucha, ''Americanizing the American Indians: Writings by the "Friends of the Indians," 1880-1900.'' (1973)</ref>
The term has been used since 1907 for the American impact on other countries.<ref>Samuel E. Moffett, ''The Americanization of Canada.'' (1907); see also Ralph Willett, ''The Americanization of Germany, 1945-1949'' (1989) </ref>
==Further reading==
==Further reading==
* Cowan, Neil M. and Cowan, Ruth Schwartz. ''Our Parents' Lives: The Americanization of Eastern European Jews.'' (1989). 305 pp.
* Cowan, Neil M. and Cowan, Ruth Schwartz. ''Our Parents' Lives: The Americanization of Eastern European Jews.'' (1989). 305 pp.