WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
ROBBER BARONS
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science could not explain why the rich were rich and the poor were poor.
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survival of the fittest justified rule by the capitalists.
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laborers and employees work the hardest for the most investments.
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the nation would be stronger if the government protected labor.
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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: -Natural selection is sometimes summed up as “survival of the fittest” because the “fittest” organisms-those most suited to their environment-are the ones that reproduce most successfully, and are most likely to pass on their traits to the next generation.
Detailed explanation-3: -Social Darwinism was the product of late nineteenth-century economic and political expansion. As the European and American upper class sought to extend its economic and political power, it employed scientific explanations to justify the increasingly obvious gap between rich and poor.
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.
Detailed explanation-5: -The philosophy of Social Darwinism justified economic inequalities because it contended that society evolved and improved through competition.