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Social Darwinism was a theory used to justify all of the following except:

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Anti-trust legislation
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A lack of social programs to help the unemployed
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Laws and social actions giving white Anglo-Saxon Protestants at the expense of other races, ethnicities, and religion.
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Laissez-faire governmental policy.
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Imperialist actions by the US government.
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The correct option is B A lack of social programs to help the unemployed
Social Darwinism is based on Charles Darwin theory of Natural Selection which called for the survival of the fittest. This ideology was used to justify imperialism, racism, eugenics and social inequality by the Social Darwinist who believed that certain people become successful as they are innately better.

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