Big Business and Labor Quiz

Social Darwinism was when the term "survival of the fittest" came in. Also, some people were upset because the theory was that people descended from apes and that instead of the world being 6,000 years old, as most people believed at that time, but instead millions of years old. People, and the government believed that the government couldn't interfere because it would upset the natural order of things. People, especially big business owners, believed strongly in this so the government wouldn't, and couldn't interfere with their market.

Laissez Faire was when the government let the government let the businesses do pretty much whatever they wanted. Big business owners believed that because the government didn't make the market, they did, so the government shouldn't be able to control the market, they should. This was very bad for the people in lower class because big business owners could now underpay and overwork their employee's as much as they wanted to without getting in trouble with the government. This was also bad news because small businesses couldn't compete with that and would quickly fail.