Social Darwinism Dbq

In the late 18th century, after the American Civil War and the beginning of the 19th century, brought more negative compelling effects on the U.S society due to the wide scale growth of Industrialization. During those years of technology developing and advancing and corporations were being established, America was benefiting well at the start, but until situations developed throughout time, creating more negative impact involving corruptions, industries creating monopolies and the merging of Social Darwinism. The rise of industrialization was the era corruption started or as Mark Twain calls it the Gilded Age to describe the 1800s in America, a time period marked by greed and corruption of serious social problems masked by a thin gold gliding

In document 2 it shows how skilled workers that worked in industries were being easily replaced by unskilled workers, mostly immigrants that were paid very very low, had long hours, and poor working conditions. Which this lead to the forming of unions and strikes and violent acts due to the unfair treatment of the hardworking workers. This indeed showed Social Darwinism was a great impact to workers and social workers. The Author's purpose in writing this was to show the economic changes and the inequality distribution of wealth. In document 4 it states how the rich are better than the poor and are the ones who are causing the problem due to the strikes. So in document 4, Andrew Carnegie is a positive impact of helping the poor but still he was one of the many big industrial owners that took part of the wrongdoings of industrialization by paying low wages and refusing to directly help the poor workers. And so this indeed did bought negative effects to the U.S socially and economically due to Social Darwinism. The Author's purpose in writing this is to show the inequality distribution of wealth to society and shown by Andrew Carnegie's method of helping the poor but also in the greed of