16 Shades of Black VOLUME 1 ISSUE 1 May 2013 | Page 25

Later on with the arrival of immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe after the Civil War, the economy became more uncertain as the social inequalities between different divisions of society became more visible. These pronounced social inequalities caused the government to begin to utilize the idea of scientific management, known as progressivism.

This view of science utilized as a method of reform and science of genetics gave rise to a new social engineering- Eugenics. Eugenicists believed genetics were the cause of problems for the human gene pool. A report done by the National Public Radio (NPR) states so well, “Born out of a society that was still making the transition from agricultural to industrial, much