Consequence: Myth of the Lost Cause Flashcards
The Myth of the Lost Cause is an:
The Myth of the Lost Cause is an ideology which sought to justify the Southern position, presenting the war, from the Confederate perspective in the best possible terms.
The first of the 6 assertions generally made by followers of the Lost Cause is:
That secession and not slavery was the primary cause for the Civil War. That it was a war of Northern aggression where Southern State Rights were infringed.
The second of the 6 assertions generally made by followers of the Lost Cause is:
That African American Slaves were faithful to their masters and loyal to the Confederate Cause, slavery was a beneficial institution as the African Americans were completely unprepared for the responsibilities of freedom. The Myth of the Lost Cause tried to minimise the negative impact of slavery.
The third of the 6 assertions generally made by followers of the Lost Cause is:
The Confederacy was defeated militarily only because of the Union’s overwhelming advantages in men and resources. It was an act of Northern aggression.
The fourth of the 6 assertions generally made by followers of the Lost Cause is:
Southern women were loyal to the Confederate cause and sanctified by the sacrifice of their loved ones.
The fifth of the 6 assertions generally made by followers of the Lost Cause is:
Confederate Soldiers were heroic and saintly. There are numerous Confederate Civil War Hero Monuments which were erected by believers of the ‘Myth of the Lost Cause’ and echo this myth. There is currently a debate raging across the U.S. about whether to pull these down.
The last of the 6 assertions generally made by followers of the Lost Cause is:
The most saintly of all confederates and perhaps all Americans was Robert E. Lee. Robert. E. Lee was a slave owning Virginian but is displayed as a gentlemanly war hero. There is great turmoil throughout the U.S. in the debate, in Ohio about the pulling down of these Monuments. Racial attitudes continue to be a major divisive issue within American Society.
Mayor _____ ________ of N__ _______ said this before pulling down a statue of Robert E. Lee saying the aim of the Confederacy was to _______ _______ to ____ the _____…
Mayor Mitch Landrieu of New Orleans said this before pulling down a statue of Robert E. Lee: I want to speak about why we chose to remove these monuments to the Lost Cause of the Confederacy. The statues of Robert E. Lee were not erected just to honor these men, but to “rewrite history to hide the truth, which is that the Confederacy were on the wrong side of humanity.”
The Mayor also said _____ __ a __________…
“There is a difference between remembrance of history and reverence of it.”
The Mayor also said _____ _______ are not ____ _____ and _____…
“These statues are not just stone and metal. They are not just innocent remembrances of a benign history. These monuments purposefully celebrate a fictional, sanitised Confederacy, ignoring the death, ignoring the enslavement, and the terror that it actually stood for.”
