WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
SECOND INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
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society as a whole would suffer
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the smartest and strongest members of society would grow rich
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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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: -The main proponents of social darwinism are Herbert Spencer, Thomas Malthus and William Graham Sumner. However, none of them explicitly used the term ‘social darwinism’ to describe their work.
Detailed explanation-3: -Social Darwinism provided wealthy and powerful people with a justification for their existence. Business owners utilized Social Darwinian beliefs to justify monopolies.
Detailed explanation-4: -How did the theory of social Darwinism affect the government’s relationship to big business. It affected the business because people who were not born into business could not become business men. This means that the big businesses would just get even bigger.