1. Consequences of The Second Industrial Revolution
Unit 3 Part 2
Consequences of The Second Industrial Revolution

2. Unit 3 Part 2 Day 1
Consequences of the Second Industrial Revolution: Social Darwinism vs. Social Gospel
Essential Question: How were Social Darwinism and the Social Gospel Movement consequences of the Second Industrial Revolution?

3. Social Darwinism
Social Darwinists were influenced by the work of Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution
Yale professor William Graham Sumner applied the theory to American capitalism, calling it Social Darwinism

4. Social Darwinism Justified the actions of industrialists
Individuals and societies are in competition with one another, and only the strong survive

5. Social Darwinism
Most Americans believed government should not interfere with private businesses, so government did not regulate relations with workers or tax company profits – laissez-faire policies
Those who were “fit” in business would become rich
Society would benefit from the success of the fit, and from weeding out the unfit

6. Social Gospel
The Social Gospel movement emerged among Protestant Christians to improve the economic, moral and social conditions of the urban working class
Walter Rauschenbusch was a leader of the movement
Disagreed with the idea of Social Darwinism
Addressed excess of industrialization and urbanization
Christians were responsible for helping workers and the poor
Salvation through social justice work
YMCA and Salvation Army