Describe the eugenics movement and what its goals were.

Eugenics is a movement which aimed at refining the genetic make of the mankind.

Explanation:

Eugenics is the word which is used by the cousin of Charles Darwin and he advocated that selective breeding is the only way to transfer the traits in humans. He advocated that people with desired traits are mostly from rich and elite class of the society and the people who were undesirable were from poor class.  

There was huge prevalence of blindness, deafness and feeble mindedness and mentally challenged in the US society that US government started to expand the program of sterilization and many have to undergo without any choice.

frederick william of brandenburg-prussia trained his son, frederick, to be a hardy soldier. but frederick disliked rifle shooting and horseback riding. unlike his father, he was interested in french literature. he enjoyed poetry and music and, like some others of the enlightenment, he scoffed at religion. his father thought him soft, frivolous and unmindful of his duties. and when frederick refused to put his signature on a right to succession, for a few moments his father strangled him.