DBWI: Lost Schoolhouse Rock Civil-War Episode

As a lot of the Gen X and older crowd here might remember, the US educational cartoon show Schoolhouse Rock aired their American Civil War cartoon just one time. It provoked so much backlash from the public, with ABC threatened with sponsor boycotts and even complaints to the FCC, that it was pulled after that one screening, never to be shown again. The series continued its 1970s run sticking to its usual safe ground as far as American history and government went.

Is there anything the creators could have done differently to make that episode more acceptable to a politically and to a large extent racially polarized public in the mid-1970s? I've never seen the installment myself(not even You Tube has it, so I assume the copies were all destroyed), so would be grateful for any recollections as well.

OOC: In the real world, there was no Civil War episode of Schoolhouse Rock at all.
 
I think if they just would have set it up differently.

Maybe if they had said, The Civil War was caused by tariffs, by fears on the part of the planter class that their power would reduce, and by slavery of course (and then giving one brief, juicy detail that slavery was a major contributing factor)
 
I think if they just would have set it up differently.

Maybe if they had said, The Civil War was caused by tariffs, by fears on the part of the planter class that their power would reduce, and by slavery of course (and then giving one brief, juicy detail that slavery was a major contributing factor)

Yeah, Elbow Room covered the native-American wars just by saying "There were plenty of fights/To win land rights", accompanied by an image of an arrow going through a pioneer's hat. But whoever they got to do Disunited States(again, from second-hand sources here) insisted on having the South symbolized by a typical southern gentleman dashing about cracking his whip all over the place. Which managed to offend both white southerners(because it made them look violent), and blacks(because it trivialized the brutality of slavery).
 
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I wonder what viewers in Alaska and Hawaii thought about Elbow Room failing to mention their territories at all, while including the moon.
 
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