QUESTION 7
According to the Florida Humanities Council video, why did the South create the Lost Cause myth?
a. It created the Lost Cause because the facts on the ground showed that slavery was not a cause in the coming of the Civil War.
b. It created the Lost Cause because racial equality was accepted everyone right after the war, and so it wanted to distanced itself from its slave past. c. It was a way for it to justify the pain and loss that the South had experienced.
d. It was because the North was corrupt and the South sought to point out that fact.
QUESTION 8
Which of the following debunks the Lost Cause myth that the South seceded because of state's rights and not to protect slavery?
a. President Woodrow Wilson, president of the U.S. during WWI and former president of Princeton, wrote about the central role that slavery played.
b. The films Birth of a Nation and Gone with the Wind are so powerful that they persuade people to believe that the war was over slavery.
c. Lincoln's Declaration of War, in which he clearly blamed the South's desire to keep slaves as a cause of the war.
d. The Declarations of Secession by the Southern States, which explained that slavery was central to why they were leaving the United States.
QUESTION 9
How did the Lost Cause myth become so popular, even though it wasn't true?
a. The Daughters of the Confederacy were influential on school boards for decades, and so were able to choose student textbooks that promoted the I Cause.
b. Popular movies like Birth of a Nation and Gone with the Wind were able to sway many, especially with the romanticized scenes in Gone with the Wini
c. The Daughters of the Confederacy had statues erected in honor of Confederate soldiers; these statues along with Confederate Veteran memorials pi the idea of the good soldier without mention of the causes or consequences of the war.
d. All of the above.