School’s moral role grew as immigrant influx threatened Yankee values.

Evidence

That the school could supplement the beneficial effects of family up­ bringing, first voiced by the Puritan educators, became commonplace in the nineteenth century as the influx of immigrant workers threatened to “dilute” Yankee morality. — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America, 482

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Anti-Catholic nativists framed parochial schools as threats to national loyalty — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashes…, 303

Broader Connections

• Anti-Catholic nativists framed parochial schools as threats to national loyalty #corroborates (0.78) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 303