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 Lost 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 Wind.
c. The Daughters of the Confederacy had statues erected in honor of Confederate soldiers; these statues along with Confederate Veteran memorials promoted the idea of the good soldier without mention of the causes or consequences of the war.
d. All of the above.
QUESTION 10
Which of the following was a major reason that England did not intervene in the American Civil War?
a. Britain ignored the American conflict, and so it never considered getting involved in the American Civil War.
b. Britain did not want to lose the South as a trading part since it imported cotton, which was needed for its textile mills.
c. Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation (1863) turned the war into a crusade against slavery, which the British people could not support, even though Britain had been leaning in favor of the Confederacy.
