Confederate Cause

What Was the Confederate Cause? The following quiz may help in demonstrating what the "Lost Cause" was really about. This is a multiple choice, open link test. Cheating is encouraged. In his farewell address to the United States Senate on January 21, 1861 , Jefferson Davis (then U.S. Senator from Mississippi, and later first and only President of t... he Confederate States of America) complained that Mississippi "has heard proclaimed the theory that __________________________________, and this made the basis of an attack upon ____________________; and the sacred Declaration of Independence has been invoked to maintain the position of _________________________." Which option correctly fills in the blanks? "the authority of government comes from the people, not from Almighty God...Christian civilization...Deism, or even of outright Atheism" According to the "Cornerstone Speech" given by Confederate Vice President Alexander Stephens in Savannah on March 12, 1861, the "cornerstone" of the new Confederate goverment was: In the Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union, the South Carolinians also complain that some Northern states had granted citizenship to "persons who, by the supreme law of the land, are incapable of becoming citizens; and their votes have been used to inaugurate a new policy, hostile to the South, and destructive of its beliefs and safety." This reference to persons "incapable of becoming citizens" is a reference to : the failure of other states to maintain property qualifications for voting. the Supreme Court decision Dred Scott v. Sandford, which declared that a "free negro of the African race...is not a 'citizen' within the meaning of the Constitution of the United States" and that no state law could make free blacks citizens of the United States or give them rights under the U.S. Constitution. the New York State Legislature's granting of honorary New York citizenship to Queen Victoria. Although not published at the time, ...Read More