How did social Darwinism affect reconstrution?

They believed that government should not interfere in the “survival of the fittest” by helping the poor, and promoted the idea that some races are biologically superior to others. read more

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Richard Hofstadter. 1955. Social Darwinism in American Thought. Boston: Beacon Press. “Pauperism in the City of New York.” In American Social Science Association, Conference of Public Charities Held at New York, May 20 and 22, 1874 (Cambridge, MA: Printed for the American Social Science Association, 1874). Amos G. Warner. 1894. read more