WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
SECOND INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
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“we must do all we can to help the needy and suffering”
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“we must break up the monopolies”
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“workers should be happy with whatever wages they get. If they just worked hard enough they would be business owners like us”
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“we must give the workers a chance at union”
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Detailed explanation-1: -Poverty would always exist, Spencer concluded, because the stronger members of society would triumph over the weaker members. Social Darwinism provided wealthy and powerful people with a justification for their existence. Business owners utilized Social Darwinian beliefs to justify monopolies.
Detailed explanation-2: -How did Industrialists use Social Darwinism to justify their wealth? The industrialists thought the only way to be successful was to make more money than everyone else to be at the top and “survive".
Detailed explanation-3: -The social Darwinists-notably Spencer and Walter Bagehot in England and William Graham Sumner in the United States-believed that the process of natural selection acting on variations in the population would result in the survival of the best competitors and in continuing improvement in the population.
Detailed explanation-4: -Social Darwinism refers to various theories and societal practices that purport to apply biological concepts of natural selection and survival of the fittest to sociology, economics and politics, and which were largely defined by scholars in Western Europe and North America in the 1870s.