Question

1. select all that apply.
2. what were three implications of social darwinism?

□ it supported the idea that white people were better equipped to handle wealth and power.
□ it reinforced the need to prohibit interracial dating and marriage to avoid diluting the evolutionary progress of the white race.
□ it was used to create the concept of ethnicity.
□ it used polygenism to justify the belief that one race could evolve more than another.
□ it raised awareness of the damage caused by imperialism.

1. choose the best answer.

____ supported the belief that darwins theory of natural selection was true for race.
ethnicism
craniometry
imperialism
social darwinism

Explanation:

• For the first question:
• Social Darwinism was used to justify racial hierarchies. The idea that White people were better equipped to handle wealth and power (as it fit the "survival of the fittest" mis - application to race).
• Prohibiting interracial dating/marriage to avoid "diluting" the White race was a common eugenics - related (a mis - application of Social Darwinist ideas) implication.
• Polygenism (the belief in multiple human origins) was used by Social Darwinists to claim one race could evolve more than another.
• The concept of ethnicity predates Social Darwinism. And Social Darwinism was used to justify imperialism, not raise awareness of its damage.
• For the second question:
• Social Darwinism took Darwin's theory of natural selection and mis - applied it to human races, claiming that races were in a struggle for survival and some were "fitter" (more evolved) than others.
• Ethnicism is about ethnic identity and pride, not directly about applying natural selection to race.
• Craniometry (measuring skulls) was a method used in some pseudo - scientific attempts related to race but not the overall belief system.
• Imperialism is a political - economic system; while Social Darwinism was used to justify it, it is not the term that directly supported the belief about natural selection and race.

Answer:

• First question:
• It supported the idea that White people were better equipped to handle wealth and power.
• It reinforced the need to prohibit interracial dating and marriage to avoid diluting the evolutionary progress of the White race.
• It used polygenism to justify the belief that one race could evolve more than another.
• Second question: Social Darwinism