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 answer is b hope that