When a particular group is singled out to bear the blame for economic or social hardships that adversely affect a more dominant group, this is referred to as:

Scapegoating

Explanation:

Scapegoat theory refers to the tendency of projecting blame of one's failure or wrong deeds on others while maintaining one's own image to be right and positive.

This process often leads to the feelings of prejudice towards the group or person who is blamed.

Scapegoating can be regarded as a process in which a group or an individual is wrongly blamed for the deeds that the are not involved in and this leads to the purposeful ignorance of the of the real cause or the denial of it.

Thus the question here shows an example of scapegoating.

thomas jefferson

explanation:

it is a part of john locke's natural rights popular during the age of enlightenment that people had inalienable rights to life, liberty and property. this was reflected by thomas jefferson in his declaration of independence as rights to life,liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

another line in the declaration of independence is that people have certain rights just because they are human. humans are capable of obeying the three natural rights john locke mentioned making them governable by these laws and therefore entitled to these rights as well.