WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
AMERICAN INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT IN THE GILDED AGE
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Leaders in power want to retain power
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Devolution of primates
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Survival of the fittest
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Eugenics
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Detailed explanation-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.
Detailed explanation-2: -Social Darwinism is commonly understood to mean the application of Darwin’s biological theories to the social and cultural realm. In reality, sociocultural evolutionary theories developed in parallel to biological theories, rather than emerging from them.
Detailed explanation-3: -Survival of the fittest means that organisms that are better adapted to their environment are best suited to survive and successfully reproduce. “Survival of the fittest” is an expression, developed from Darwin’s theory of evolution.
Detailed explanation-4: -In the first four editions of On the Origin of Species, Darwin had used the phrase “natural selection". In Chapter 4 of the 5th edition of The Origin published in 1869, Darwin implies again the synonym: “Natural Selection, or the Survival of the Fittest".