AP European History / Unit 7: 19th-Century Perspectives and Political Developments
7.4 Darwinism, Social Darwinism
Notes
Darwin's On the Origin of Species (1859) proposed evolution by natural selection. Social Darwinism misapplied it to societies and races to justify imperialism, racism and inequality.
Practice
Darwin's theory of evolution is based on:
1859.
Social Darwinism was used to justify:
Misuse of science.
Herbert Spencer coined the phrase:
Social Darwinism.
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