Darwin's Theory Into Social Darwinism

A naturalist named Charles Darwin had written a book titled On The Origin of Species during the year of 1859. His book discusses the connection between evolution and natural selection. Darwin’s theory argued that all organisms change over time from a methodology that he called natural selection. Basically, if a species is not equipt to handle the environmental conditions they eventually die out and a more equipt species would eventually adapt. Darwin’s Theory was eventually manipulated by a man named Herbert Spencer. Spencer believed that Darwin’s Theory could be used not just amongst species but amongst humans- in this case specifically Americans- themselves. Spencer transformed Darwin’s Theory into Social Darwinism, a new ideology of the

This concept gave white upper-class Americans an excuse to kill off and mistreat groups of individuals inferior to their societal views. Darwin’s original idea became a teology due to the circumstance that Spencer used a new concept out of Darwin’s original Theory that he called Social Darwinism as a way of social selection, ensuring that the desired race and immigrants would rule, as well as controlling male dominance over women, and implementing specific foreign policies along with U.S. Imperialism, ensuring a difficult time for the undesired breeds of humans that were in America.

During the mid 18th to early 19th century a doctor named J. Marion Sims progressed science today but in a problematic way. He bought female slaves and with no consent experimented on them in hopes to ‘advance medical research’. These actions were problematic seemingly unethical, due to the fact that he operated without using anesthesia as well as forcing those women into a lot of pain. This man advanced modern

Hall(1854), the California Constitution of 1879 and the Paige Act of 1875. Anglo Saxons wanted to keep undesirable immigrants from coming to the United States for social control. The upper class Americans wanted to enforce structural racisim in order to prevent the amount of immigrants coming into America from making families in the United States and in order to do that they created a handful of laws and regulations. The less green cards the American government would give to the minorities than the less likely they’d want to return to America. Americans thought that they had to ‘Americanize’ the immigrants they accepted in, to ensure that the immigrants adapted to societal views and they’d eventually become more ‘civilized’. Civilized in this Western culture meant necessarily leaving behind cultural roots such as: traditional clothing, foreign languages, even up to the extent of foreign food. Looking more into which types of immigrants were classified as American and which were not the history appears to claim white Europeans as American and disregards African Americans, Asian and Latin American immigrants. Specifically targeting Cubans, Fillipinos, Porto Ricans, and Hawaiians it is sad to see that the United States