QUESTION 9
How did the Lost Cause myth become so popular, even though it wasn't true?
a. The Dasghters 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. Al 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 confict, 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.
d. Since Lincoin considered the Sauth as being in rebellion, ocher countries could not intervene in the domestic affairs of another country, had Uncoin recognized the South as a beliggerent country, then Britain could have joined the Union's side.
