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In the Jim Crowe era what was the reason for the spread of social Dwarfism theory

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Answer: Social Darwinism was the product of late nineteenth-century economic and political expansion. As the European and American upper class sought to extend its economic and political power, it employed scientific explanations to justify the increasingly obvious gap between rich and poor.

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