WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
AMERICAN INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT IN THE GILDED AGE
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A government that would intervene and soften the harsh conditions created by capitalism
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A government that didn’t interfere in the process of evolution ____ one that let the poor and “unfit” die out
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A government that would only offer support for the wealthy
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No government at all ____ they were anarchists
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Detailed explanation-1: -Many Social Darwinists embraced laissez-faire capitalism and racism. They believed that government should not interfere in the “survival of the fittest” by helping the poor, and promoted the idea that some races are biologically superior to others.
Detailed explanation-2: -He concluded that some people were destined for wealth and power because they were naturally stronger. Poverty would always exist, Spencer concluded, because the stronger members of society would triumph over the weaker members.
Detailed explanation-3: -Social Darwinism holds that the strong see their wealth and power increase while the weak see their wealth and power decrease. Social Darwinist definitions of the strong and the weak vary, and also differ on the precise mechanisms that reward strength and punish weakness.
Detailed explanation-4: -Darwin passionately opposed social injustice and oppression. He would have been dismayed to see the events of generations to come: his name attached to opposing ideologies from Marxism to unbridled capitalism, and to policies from ethnic cleansing to forced sterilization.
Detailed explanation-5: -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.