WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
AMERICAN INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT IN THE GILDED AGE
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need for settlement homes
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creation of a national parks system
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success or failure of businesses
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development of the Granger movement
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Detailed explanation-1: -Social Darwinism is a loose set of ideologies that emerged in the late 1800s in which Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection was used to justify certain political, social, or economic views.
Detailed explanation-2: -Social Darwinism provided wealthy and powerful people with a justification for their existence. Business owners utilized Social Darwinian beliefs to justify monopolies.
Detailed explanation-3: -Social Darwinism was a sociological theory popular in late nineteenth-century Europe and the United States. It merged Charles Darwin’s theory of natural selection and Herbert Spencer’s sociological theories to justify imperialism, racism, and laissez-faire (i.e. conservative) social and economic policies.
Detailed explanation-4: -The term “social Darwinism” first appeared in Europe in 1880, and journalist Emilie Gautier had coined the term with reference to a health conference in Berlin 1877.