The idea of the Lost Cause was a romanticized view of the causes of the Civil War, slavery, and the Old South. Many southern churches and denominations perpetuated the Lost Cause, thereby creating a mythology that equated the Confederacy’s defeat with the death of Christ, as if the South had been sacrificed for the sins of the United States. True / False.

True.

Explanation:

The myth of the Lost Cause was born in the climate of economic, racial and political uncertainty of the postwar period. It was an idealization of the South´s motives and fight in the Civil War. It was the creation of white Southerners, some of them former generals. It is a very good example of collective memory with a nostagia of the past and the collective forgetting of the horrors of slavery. The Lost Cause continues to be alive, feeding the way the war is commemorated in the South and depicted in the popular culture.

- "the civil rights movements"

- "following the american civil war and abolition of slavery, the united states entered a period known as reconstruction, during which black americans continued to suffer from disenfranchisement, racial segregation, and economic oppression. beginning in the early 1950's, black americans launched a series of major campaigns of civil resistance, emphasizing the need for nonviolent protests and civil disobedience."

"such as the montgomery bus boycott of 1955-56, a campaign launched by rosa parks against the policy of racial segregation of the public transit system in alabama. “sit-ins” became popular across the american south, particularly in greensboro, north carolina, increase national sentiment."

- "the counterculture movement"

- "counterculture began to develop in the united states following the rise of conformity in american culture during the 1950s. by 1963, youth, particularly those of the white middle class, began rejecting the cultural standards and normality of their parents, opting for progressive attitudes instead. the movement gained momentum as the civil rights movement became increasingly successful and as the u.s. military intervention of vietnam began to take a negative turn."

"hippie counterculture moved further into popular culture following the summer of love in 1967 when thousands of people came together in the haight-ashbury neighborhood of san francisco. along with greenwich village in new york city, haight-ashbury became a hub for the counterculture movement."

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