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c. Provide ONE piece of specific evidence supporting your explanation in part B. 

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c. Provide ONE piece of specific evidence supporting your explanation in part B. 

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In order to promote industrialization and keep the economy flowing, the government largely stayed out of the way of businesses in the late 1800s. The Sherman Anti-Trust Act attempted to get rid of trusts and monopolies but it was rarely enforced. No laws were passed that attempted to improve working conditions or punish businesses and corporations that allowed for those conditions. Welfare was not very popular either.

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b. Evaluate the impact your chosen philosophy had on the realities of life in the Gilded Age. 

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b. Evaluate the impact your chosen philosophy had on the realities of life in the Gilded Age. 

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Social Darwinism was used by the rich and wealthy as an excuse to refuse help to the poor. They believed that since they were the fittest, it was a waste to try and help those who were already doomed. The rich saw it as a waste of resources, money, and time. It was a way for them to maintain their high status and the poor to maintain their low status. Those who shared this belief were against unions, government intervention, and reform.

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a. Choose ONE of the philosophies listed below and describe how it proposed to achieve the ideal society in the Gilded Age. 

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a. Choose ONE of the philosophies listed below and describe how it proposed to achieve the ideal society in the Gilded Age. 

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Social Darwinism was the belief that only the strongest survive. It used an idea made popular by Charles Darwin about animal behavior and survival of the fittest. The rich believed that they were the "fittest" of society and should be the only ones to prosper.