Social Darwinism most heavily affected the US government's relationship to big business during the late 1800s, coined by Mark Twain as "the Gilded Age." The theory affected this relationship by convincing (or allowing politicians to convince themselves) that only the strongest will survive and thus the government operated under a <em>laissez-faire </em>system (French for "hands off"). The government felt it should not regulate or weigh in on business issues and instead let businesses conduct affairs amongst themselves; however, this led to the creation of large monopolies, the formation of a moneyed elite still with us today, and the creation of the now huge wealth gap between the richest and poorest Americans.
To be honest. This is why the civil war happened. Some people may have lived in the free states, but Most people fought for their beliefs. Hope I helped.
<span>Assuming that this is referring to the same list of options that was posted before with this question, <span>the correct two responses would be that massive amounts of resources were taken away from other economic sectors, and that the government failed to properly "guess" the proper production quotas. </span></span>
