HIST 203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: White Supremacy, Eugenics, Gilded Age
24 Apr 2016
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Started to end child labor / make work safer. In short, progressive era was a time of major reform & social transformation. If one thing defines the progressive era, it is an unwavering faith in science. Even though many reformers & politicians sought to fix the problems & excesses of the early gilded age, there were nevertheless still many continuities between the. Indeed, the way many people thought about race & Concept of survival of the fittest to social relations. Only a few individuals were capable of driving the emerging industrial economy. 1st articulated in mid 19th c: gilded age social darwinists believed tampering w/ society was a bad thing, gilded age social darwinism was a school of thought mostly applied to class relations. In the progressive era, social darwinism was increasingly applied to race relations. George william hunter, a civic biology: presented in problems, (1914)
