Question

After the Civil War, how did nostalgic white Southerners view the Old South?

A.They thought about the Old South with shame because of its history of slavery.
B.They held a romantic view of the Old South and believed it was mostly good.
C.They were glad the Old South was gone, and many relocated to the North.
D.They hoped that Reconstruction policies would bring the Old South back.

Answer 1

B.They held a romantic view of the Old South and believed it was mostly good.


mind u these where the people who fought to keep slaves and believed that blacks where un able to survive on their own and had to be saved from them selves

Answer 2

The correct answer is B, that they held a romantic view of the Old South and believed it was mostly good.

The White Southerners Romanticized the Civil War, they looked at the old south Confederate heroes with reverence.

Following the defeat of confederacy and the abolition of slavery, the South Americans were left to fight with the legacy of its antebellum life. The formation of the new southern regional identity through the idea of the Lost Cause, steeped in dejection and the romanticization of antebellum life. It also provided a way to North and South to reunite and strengthen national unity, as the legacies of slavery and the Confederacy were made more savoury by acknowledging the heroic nature of the defeated South.