Darwin's anti-slavery beliefs helped to shape his theory of evolution. Darwin more mad by slavery than in South America. During the Beagle voyage he saw the aftermath of slave revolts. Darwin's aunt, Sarah Wedgwood, gave more to the anti-slavery movement than any other woman in Britain. Darwin's mother and wife were Wedgwoods and anti-slavery was what Darwin called a “sacred cause”. He was taught to see the oppressed black as a “brother”. (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article5562488.ece)

Social Darwinism is the theory that individuals, groups, and peoples are subject to the same Darwinian laws of natural selection as plants and animals. Now largely discredited, it was advocated by Herbert Spencer and others in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and was used to justify political conservatism, imperialism, and racism and to discourage intervention and reform. Darwinism is The theory of the evolution of species by natural selection by Charles Darwin. (http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/darwinism.html)

Among the attacks on evolution there are endlessly-repeated allegations that Darwin’s theory promotes racism, and he was somehow responsible for the eugenics movement. Darwinism had on ethics and morality. Darwinism played a role not only eugenics, but also in euthanasia, infanticide, abortion, and racial extermination, all agreed by the Nazis. He made the disturbing argument that Hitler built his view of ethics on Darwinian principles. The science and philosophy of human intervention to ensure the 'improvement' of human hereditary traits is known as Eugenics extension of Social Darwinism. (http://www.detoxorcist.com/eugenics-and-social-darwinism.html)

The Industrial Revolution (1820-1870) was important to the economic development of the United States. The first Industrial Revolution happened in Great Britain and Europe during the late eighteenth century. The Industrial Revolution then came on the United States and Germany. The first industrial rev was important for inventions of spinning and weaving machines operated by water power eventually replaced by steam. America went to war with Great Britain in 1812. (http://americanhistory.about.com/od/industrialrev/a/indrevoverview.htm). Darwin influenced many people like Francis Galton- who formulated the modern field and term for Eugenics-the study and practice of selective breeding applied to humans. On the 150th anniversary of the publication of Charles Darwin's Origin of Species, Darwin's influence on the the modern world, analyzed by Ernst Mayr, one of the 20th century's best evolutionary theorists. (http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=darwins-influence-on-modern-thought-09-11-24)