Chapter 14

Quiz for Chapter Fourteen Thinking Like a Historian: The South’s “Lost Cause”

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Question 1

What does the commemorative postcard (source 1) suggest about the state of affairs in the South thirty years after the official end of Reconstruction?A. The Union’s Civil War victory held strong, and white southerners had repudiated the Confederate cause.
B. White southerners sought to honor the bravery of their forbearers in the war, but they did not endorse the goals of the Confederacy.
C. White southerners were somewhat ashamed of their Confederate past, but they still honored the sacrifices made by Confederate citizens.
D. Although the Confederate government had been defeated, Confederate values were alive and well among many white southerners.

Question 2

The United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) Constitution of 1894 (source 2) stressed that the organization worked to “preserve material for a truthful history of the war.” What does the evidence in this feature suggest about how the organization conceived of the truthful history of the war?A. The war was a heroic lost cause in which white southerners bravely fought to preserve their rights, freedoms, and way of life.
B. The war was fought primarily by nonslaveholding white men on behalf of wealthy southerners who sought to maintain slavery.
C. The Civil War was a tragic event that resulted from the white southerners’ political missteps and their desire to maintain an unjust institution.
D. Abraham Lincoln did not intend to abolish slavery and did the right thing in waging war to defeat the Confederates and preserve the Union.

Question 3

What does the advertisement from the McNeel Marble Co. (source 3) suggest about the economic status of most whites in the South in 1905?A. The South’s economy was booming, and whites had plenty of discretionary income to fund Confederate memorials.
B. Southern whites struggled economically but placed a high priority on efforts to commemorate the Confederacy.
C. Despite their pride in the Confederacy, most white southerners could not easily afford to donate to the UDC.
D. White southerners had plenty of money but no interest in funding Confederate memorials.

Question 4

Based on the evidence in sources 4 and 6, what would a historian conclude about which groups’ interests were served by the South’s “Lost Cause” associations?A. Former slave-owning families and their descendants
B. Poor and yeomen whites who had fought for the Confederacy
C. Poor Confederate widows and orphans
D. Slaves and their free descendants