<em>The correct answer is option C: Immigrants resisted the “Americanization Movement” by developing Catholic schools in cities.</em>
The Americanization Movement pursued to turn immigrants into Americans by introducing them to a variety of education programs and campaigns. Local community centers and organizations offered immigrants free classes on American history, English language as well as specific skills for developing jobs. However, many immigrants refused to assimilate into the American civic culture, so they developed Catholic schools to keep their roots. After 1890, those immigrants who started to arrive from Southern and Eastern Europe, were more likely to be Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, and Jewish. These religions were not very common in America during those times. By doing so, they were able to resist the Americanization Movement goals.
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How could we not, when Maniac Magee finally ends with Maniac simply content that "finally, truly, at long last, someone was calling him home" (46.27). After the miles and miles Maniac's seen-better-days sneakers chewed up, the book ends with him heading home to the place he's been looking for this whole time.
President Reagan issued 250 signing statements, 86 of which (34%) contained provisions objecting to one or more of the statutory provisions signed into law. President George H. W. Bush continued this practice, issuing 228 signing statements, 107 of which (47%) raised objections.
Northerners claimed the law was unfair. The flagrant violation of the Fugitive Slave Law set the scene for the tempest that emerged later in the decade. But for now, Americans hoped against hope that the fragile peace would prevail.
