COLONIALISM AND IMPERIALISM
THE AGE OF IMPERIALISM 1870 1914
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was used by Anti-Imperialists to promote imperialism
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was used to argue some races and nations are naturally superior to others
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was used to defend a policy of neutrality and isolationism
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was promoted by Frederick Jackson Turner
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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 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-3: -Similarly, Social Darwinism was used as a justification for American imperialism in Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines following the Spanish-American War, as many adherents of imperialism argued that it was the duty of white Americans to bring civilization to “backwards” peoples.
Detailed explanation-4: -July 2022) 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.