Women in the Civil War
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Objective
I can analyze the various roles women played during the Civil War.
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Warm-up video
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Key concepts
3 concepts
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The intellectual movement that distorted the history of the Civil War and framed the Confederate cause as heroic is called the Lost Cause.
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The United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) was founded in 1894 to preserve Confederate culture and spread a pro-Southern version of the war.
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The UDC influenced children's understanding of the Civil War by lobbying for textbooks that promoted the Lost Cause and forming an auxiliary group called the Children of the Confederacy.
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Practice
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What was the primary goal of the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC)?
Which of the following is a tenet of the 'Lost Cause' ideology?
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“Describe two ways the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) influenced the way children learned about the Civil War.”
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