The term <em>social Darwinism</em> refers to a group of theories that began appearing in the 1870s in Western Europe, the United Kingdom, and North America. According to these theories, the concepts of survival of the fittest and natural selection didn't have to apply only to the world of biology, but sociology and politics as well. Social Darwinists, like Andrew Carnegie, the leader of expansion of American steel industry and one of the richest Americans to have ever lived, and John D. Rockefeller, also an industrialist, who is considered to be the richest person in modern history, believed that certain people could become powerful in society because they are inherently better than others.
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) is a measure of the average change overtime in the prices paid by urban consumers for a market basket of consumer goods and services
The Intolerable Acts were punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party. The laws were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in the Tea Party protest in reaction to changes in taxation by the British Government.
