The Americanization Movement was a political and social movement in the early 1900s that sought to assimilate new American immigrants to American culture. The goal of these programs was to push new immigrants to adopt American beliefs, values, and culture as their own. In addition another major push was for new immigrants to study English which was the national language in the United States.
In election years, it is clear that Christianity plays a big role in U.S. politics.Whatare some ways that Christianity figures into political discourse? Many of our lawsare based upon those found in the Ten Commandments and the Bible (lawsagainst murder, theft, etc). Our government makes Christian holidays nationalholidays and gives us time off for them and many government organizations don’twork on Sunday (Sabbath). Some people want to implement the Bible into schoolsand teach Christian beliefs in public schools as well. Christian politicians are oftenmore popular than non-Christian ones and when they push Christians ideas theytend to be more popular as well. Anti-gay and anti-lgbt legislation are oftenmotivated by belief in parts of the Bible that condemn homosexuality.2.Find a current article in the newspaper that has something to do with Christianity.Discuss the article with the class.
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C.) The government's decision to raise taxes to pay its huge debts
Henry Comstock<span> was an American miner after whom the </span>Comstock<span> Lode was named after</span>