USA HISTORY

WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900

ROBBER BARONS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
“The growth of a large business is merely survival of the fittest. The American beauty rose can be produced in the splendor and fragrance which bring cheer to its beholder only by sacrificing the early buds which grow up around it. This is not an evil tendency in business. It is merely the working out of a law of nature and a law of God ____ “-John D. Rockefeller, Jr.Which concept is described by this passage?
A
communism
B
Populism
C
utopian socialism
D
Social Darwinism
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -"The growth of a large business is merely survival of the fittest. The American Beauty rose can be produced in the splendor and fragrance which bring cheer to its beholder only by sacrificing the early buds with grow up around it. This is not an evil tendency in business.

Detailed explanation-2: -Laissez-faire economics is a theory that says the government should not intervene in the economy except to protect individuals’ inalienable rights. Laissez-faire policies need three components to work: capitalism, the free market economy, and rational market theory.

Detailed explanation-3: -Unions were not successful because they did not have enough members, legislators would not pass effective laws, and the courts supported the business owners. Practice Describe three ways in which industrialization changed America in the late 1800s.

Detailed explanation-4: -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.

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