Postwar patriotic societies framed assimilation as political and moral conformity.

Evidence

In the Pacific Northwest the Constitutional Government League combined Americanization and anti-strike propaganda. In Chicago the United Americans enrolled 150 speakers, who kept track of radical meetings and sent a rival orator to the nearest corner whenever a meeting was held. The Daughters of the American Revolution issued in some fifteen languages a manual for immigrants, advising them to distinguish between liberty and license, learn the American way of living, revere the Constitution, save their earnings and pay their taxes, and refrain from dropping papers and rubbish in the streets. — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 1545

Categorization

• SHARE: The DAR publishing immigrant advice in fifteen languages — including ‘don’t drop papers in the streets’ — is a delightfully absurd detail for someone teaching Americanization history.
• XREF: connects to: Wartime conformity demands persisted into peace and drove postwar xenophobia — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 1323; Formal liberal citizenship equality masks an assimilationist strategy; Assimilation converted Jewish origin from political fact into a psychological trait

Broader Connections

• Formal liberal citizenship equality masks an assimilationist strategy #expands (0.80)
• Assimilation converted Jewish origin from political fact into a psychological trait #expands (0.78)