USA HISTORY

WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900

IMMIGRATION IN INDUSTRIAL AMERICA

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The concept of Social Darwinism was used most by which industrial titan?
A
Rockefeller
B
Venderbilt
C
Carnegie
D
Morgan
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -In his 1889 article titled, Gospel of Wealth, Carnegie took the theory of Social Darwinism a step further. He argued that wealth in the hands of the few was good for all society, as they would make the most good of it.

Detailed explanation-2: -Carnegie’s Gospel of Wealth Andrew Carnegie advocated a gentler version of Social Darwinism that he called the Gospel of Wealth. This philosophy held that wealthy Americans should engage in philanthropy, using their fortunes to create the conditions that would help people help themselves.

Detailed explanation-3: -Social Darwinism is a term scholars use to describe the practice of misapplying the biological evolutionary language of Charles Darwin to politics, the economy, and society. Many Social Darwinists embraced laissez-faire capitalism and racism.

Detailed explanation-4: -Social Darwinists held that the life of humans in society was a struggle for existence ruled by “survival of the fittest, ” a phrase proposed by the British philosopher and scientist Herbert Spencer.

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