According to the video, what did Confederate Vice President Alexander Stephens declare was the cornerstone of the new Confederate government?

White supremacy and the enslavement of Black people

Explain how the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) promoted the 'Lost Cause' narrative.

The UDC erected Confederate monuments, influenced school textbooks to minimize the horrors of slavery, and romanticized the Confederacy.

That the government would fail to protect the rights of Black Americans.

It reframed the defense of slavery as a defense of states' rights and constitutional principles.

The video cites statements from Confederate leaders explicitly linking secession to the preservation of slavery.

I can explain how enslaved African Americans in the Confederacy resisted and weakened the Southern war effort during the Civil War.

1
Between 1860 and 1861, 11 Southern states seceded from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America in response to the growing movement to abolish slavery.
2
The Lost Cause is a cultural myth that claims the Confederacy was not defending slavery, but rather defending the right of each state to choose whether or not to allow slavery.
3
The organization United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) played a key role in passing on the ideas of the Lost Cause to future generations by building monuments to Confederate soldiers and monitoring school textbooks to minimize the horrors of slavery.