(A) ** life consists of competitive struggles in which only the strong survive
(B) only countries with colonies can compete in the world market
(C) the American frontier stopped people from rebelling in the US
(D) The US should expand its territory from the Atlantic & Pacific Oceans
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Concept note-1: -Social Darwinists believe in “survival of the fittest”-the idea that certain people become powerful in society because they are innately better. Social Darwinism has been used to justify imperialism, racism, eugenics and social inequality at various times over the past century and a half.
Concept note-2: -The “Fittest” and the “Unfit" Herbert Spencer based his concept of social evolution, popularly known as “Social Darwinism, ” on individual competition. Spencer believed that competition was “the law of life” and resulted in the “survival of the fittest."
Concept note-3: -In the Origin of Species, Darwin declared that there was a consistent ‘struggle for existence in nature, where only the fittest could survive. This theory came into existence partially from his observation of Thomas Malthus’s Essay on the Principle of Population.
Concept note-4: -Herbert Spencer is famous for his doctrine of social Darwinism, which asserted that the principles of evolution, including natural selection, apply to human societies, social classes, and individuals as well as to biological species developing over geologic time.
Concept note-5: -Eugenics. Eugenics is the theory and practice involving the belief that control of reproduction can improve human heredity. Although the concept dates to at least the ancient Greeks, the modern eugenics movement arose in the 19th century when Galton (1883) applied his cousin Charles Darwin’s theories to humans.