Author Question: Although they were commonly called Social Darwinists, advocates of economic, national, or racial ... (Read 59 times)

faduma · **on:** Jul 4, 2018

Although they were commonly called Social Darwinists, advocates of economic, national, or racial survival of the fittest ideas actually drew less on biologist Charles Darwin than on

a. English philosopher Herbert Spencer and Yale professor William Graham Sumner.
b. German philosophers like G.W.F. Hegel and Friedrich Nietzsche.
c. American literary figures like Jack London and Theodore Dreiser.
d. European scientists like Gregor Mendel and Louis Pasteur.
e. racist theorists like Arthur Gobineau and Houston Stewart Chamberlain.

Question 2

The Treaty of Greenville signed in August with the Miami Confederation of Indian nations resulted in all of the following except

a. giving to the United States vast tracts of land in the Old Northwest.
b. the anticipated recognition of the sovereign status on the Miami Confederation of Indian nations.
c. an annual annuity of 9,000 to the Indians.
d. the right of the Indians to hunt the land they had ceded.
e. fair and reasonable financial compensation to the Miamis in exchange for an iron-clad promise from the U.S. government to restrict further westward expansion along the Old Northwest frontier.