Nineteenth century social Darwinism provided justification for:
A) helping primitive peoples escape a fate of extinction.
B) boasian ideas of historical particularism and cultural relativism.
C) a rejection of ethnocentrism.
D) unfettered economic competition and warfare.

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Social Darwinism in the nineteenth century was used to justify unfettered economic competition and warfare, as it applied the concept of "survival of the fittest" from Darwin's theory of natural selection to human societies and economies, suggesting that competition and conflict were natural and beneficial for human progress.

Nineteenth Century Social Darwinism Provided Justification For