HIS162 social darwinism and true womanhood

william graham summer

survival of the fittest

laissez faire

rise of some individual and those at the bottom r due to lack of fit, hard work, etc

very convenient philosophy for robber barons during nineteenth century

wealth = worth due to level of intellect hard work and civilization

chicago world’s fair (columbian exposition) 1893

half million people arrived first day and by last day, 27 million people had visited

transmitted ideas ab a perfect American city

designed by frederick law olmsted

midway at the chicago world’s fair

first temporary amusement park, some rides later transferred to coney island, first permanent amusement park

first ferris wheel

very dangerous

“all in their places” display of social darwinism, evolution of the fittest: black people to white northern europeans

no black success exhibited, douglass and well called for a boycott of this fair

social housekeeping

cleaning up slums and ending drunkenness, suffrage

mother’s aid

first welfare program in the wake of civil war to aid the many widows