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12. In what relatively permanent way is American opinion expressed toward the immigrant?

13. What are the main provisions of our immigration laws?

CHAPTER XIX

1. What is meant by assimilation?

2. Distinguish between assimilation and amalgamation. 3. Why should an immigrant learn the English language? 4. What is the chief function of the foreign-language newspaper?

5. What are the chief causes of race prejudice?

6. In what ways can you personally assist in Americanization work?

7. Why should Americanization be made attractive rather than compulsory?

8. When will Americanization be completed?

APPENDIX D

SELECTED READINGS

1. AMERICANISM (Chapters II, III, IV, V)

Abbott, Lyman, America in the Making, Yale University Press: 1911.

Articles of Confederation of the United States of America. Brisbey, K. G., Home Life in America, Methuen (London): 1910.

Brooks, J. G., As Others See Us, Macmillan: 1909.

Bryce, James, The American Commonwealth, Vol. II, Chaps. CI, CII, CXIV, Macmillan: 1910.

Butler, N. M., The American as He Is, Macmillan: 1908. Constitution of the United States of America.

Croly, Herbert, The Promise of American Life, Macmillan: 1909.

-Progressive Democracy, Macmillan: 1914. d'Estournelles de Constant, P. H. B., America and Her Problems, Macmillan: 1915.

de Tocqueville, A., Democracy in America, 2 vols., Colonial Press: 1908.

Emerson, R. W., "The Fortune of the Republic," "The Young American," "American Civilization," "The American Scholar," and other essays.

Foerster, N., and W. W. Pierson, Jr., (editors), American
Ideals, Houghton Mifflin: 1917.

Francis, H., Americans, Melrose (London): 1909.
Franklin, Benjamin, Poor Richard's Almanac.

Gauss, C., (editor), Democracy Today, Scott, Foresman:

1917.

Hall, Prescott F., "The Future of American Ideals," North Amer. Rev., 195: 94-102.

Hart, A. B., National Ideals Historically Traced, (vol. 26, Amer. Nation Series), Harper: 1907.

-The Monroe Doctrine, Little, Brown: 1906.

Hill, D. J., Americanism: What It Is, Appleton: 1916.
Hillis, N. D., The Fortune of the Republic, Revell: 1916.
Jefferson, Thomas, First Inaugural Address.

Kallen, H. M., "The Meaning of Americanism,” Immigrants in America Rev., Jan. 1916, pp. 12-19.

Lane, Franklin K., The American Spirit, Stokes: 1918. Lansing, Robert, "Pan-Americanism," address at Second PanAmerican Scientific Congress, Dec. 27, 1915.

Leonard, A. R., (editor), War Addresses of Woodrow Wilson, Ginn: 1918.

Lincoln, Abraham, First Inaugural Address.
-Gettysburg Address.

-Second Inaugural Address.

Low, A. M., America at Home, Scribner: 1908.

-The American People, 2 vols., Houghton Mifflin: 1909.

Lowell, James R., Address at Birmingham, England, Oct. 6, 1884.

Martineau, Harriett, Society in America, 3 vols., Saunders and Otley (London): 1837.

Münsterberg, H., The Americans, McClure, Phillips: 1914. Phayre, Ignatius, America's Day, Dodd, Mead: 1918.

Putnam, Emily J., "As Europe Sees Us," Putnam's Mon., 5:360-65.

Robinson, H. P., The Twentieth Century American, Putnam: 1908.

Roosevelt, Theodore, Inaugural Address (1905).

-Fear God and Take Your Own Part, Doran: 1916.
-American Ideals, Putnam: 1901.

-The Strenuous Life, Rev. of Reviews Co.: 1904.

Ross, E. A., Changing America, Century: 1912.

Small, A. W., (editor), "What is Americanism?" Amer. Jour. of Sociology, XX:433-86, 613-28.

Talbot, Winthrop, Americanization, Wilson: 1917.

Tolstoy, Ilya, "My Impressions of America," Century, July

1917, pp. 417-20.

Tufts, J. H., Our Democracy, Holt: 1917.

Turner, F. J., "Contributions of the West to American Democracy," Atlantic Mon., 91:38-96.

-The Significance of the Frontier in American Life, University of Chicago Press: n. d.

Usher, R. G., The Rise of the American People, Century: 1914.

Van Dyke, H., The Spirit of America, Macmillan: 1910.
Washington, George, The Farewell Address.

Webster, Daniel, The Speeches and Orations of, Little,
Brown: 1902.

Wells, H. G., The Future in America, Harper: 1906.

-Social Forces in England and America, pp. 321-82,

Harper: 1914.

Wendell, B., Liberty, Union, and Democracy, Scribner: 1906.

Weyl, Walter, The New Democracy, Macmillan: 1912.
Wilson, Woodrow, The State, Heath: 1889.

-The New Freedom, Doubleday, Page: 1914.

2. AMERICANIZATION

(Chapters I, VII, XVII, XVIII, XIX).

Abbott, Edith, The Immigrant and the Community, Century, 1917. "Americanization as a War Measure," Bul., 1918, No. 18, Department of the Interior, Washington, D. C. Americanizing a City, National Americanization Committee: 1915.

Antin, Mary, The Promised Land, Houghton Mifflin: 1912. -They Who Knock at Our Gates, Houghton Mifflin: 1914.

Boswell, Helen V., "Promoting Americanization,” Annals, 64:204-09.

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