Question

What idea was promoted by the theory of social Darwinism in the late nineteenth centuryA)Certain inequities should be ameliorated by government intervention.B)Charles Darwin actually was writing about people when he authored On the Origin of Species.C)Progress is the result of competition where the strong survived and the weak died out.D)Competition led rich Americans to have an unfair advantage over the poor

Answer 1

C)Progress is the result of competition where the strong survived and the weak died out

Step-by-step explanation:

Social Darwinism is a social theory that applies Charles Darwin`s natural selection theory on human communities. It`s based on the idea of survival of the strongest as a way of social evolution and the belief that the darwinist concept of natural selection can be used for human society insisting in ethnic and class competition for natural resources or diferent social positions.