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WHY DID WE DO THIS?

Social Darwinism
MONDAY, MARCH 21ST, 2022
 Plan for Today

01 Check In

02 Movement Activity

03 Quotes

04 Key Terms

05 Main Lesson

06 Group Discussions

07 Exit Ticket
QUOTES
 "The way of nature has always been to slay the hindmost, and
there is still no other way, unless we can prevent those who
would become the hindmost being born. It is in the sterilization
of failures, and not in the selection of successes for breeding,
that the possibility of an improvement of the human stock lies."

H. G. Wells, 1904
"Every single case of inherited defect, every malformed child,
every congenitally tainted human being brought into this
world is of infinite importance to that poor individual; but it is
of scarcely less importance to the rest of us and to all of our
children who must pay in one way or another for these
biological and racial mistakes."

- Margaret Sanger, The Pivot of Civilization, 1922

 "It is better for all the world, if instead of waiting to execute
degenerate offspring for crime, or to let them starve for their
imbecility, society can prevent those who are manifestly unfit
from continuing their kind....Three generations of imbeciles are
enough."

- U.S. Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Buck v. Bell, 1927
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 Key Points

Darwinism Laissez-faire Capitalism

Herbert Spencer Eugenics

Imperialism
Darwinism
"A theory of the origin and perpetuation of new species of
animals and plants that offspring of a given organism vary,
that natural selection favors the survival of some of these
variations over others, that new species have arisen and may
continue to arise by these processes, and that widely divergent
groups of plants and animals have arisen from the same
ancestors" (Miriam Webster)

What comes to your mind when you think of Darwinism?

Herbert Spencer
British philosopher and sociologist credited with the invention of
the term “survival of the fittest”

Believed in the inheritance of acquired characteristics, basically

he thought anything can be passed down, including things like
morality and financial intelligence

Opposed any laws that helped workers, the poor, and those he
deemed genetically weak. Such laws, he argued, would go
against the evolution of civilization by delaying the extinction of
the “unfit.”
Laissez-faire Capitalism
Economic theory from the 18th century that opposed any
government intervention in business affairs

French term that translates to "leave alone" (literally, "let you

do")

Survival of the fittest was applied to business and government

practices, under the idea that individual competition for
property and social status was a tool for eliminating the weak
and immoral of the population
Eugenics
The scientifically erroneous and immoral theory of “racial
improvement” and “planned breeding"

Made its first official appearance in American history through

marriage laws in 1896

Eugenicists worldwide believed that they could perfect human

beings and eliminate so-called social ills through genetics and
heredity
Eugenics (continued)
Approximately 20,000 sterilizations occurred in California state
mental institutions, claiming they were "protecting society from
the offspring of people with mental illness"

In 1927, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that forced sterilization of

the handicapped does not violate the U.S. Constitution

An estimated 25-50% of Native Americans were sterilized

between 1970 and 1976
 The Big Question:

WHY WAS SOCIAL

DARWINISM IMPORTANT
TO NEW IMPERIALISM?
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