Scholars dispute whether the Civil War marked a watershed in American history for all of the following reasons except

Question

A. racial inequality persisted long after the war.
B. industrial growth of the post-Civil War years had its real roots decades earlier in the Jacksonian era.
C. regional differences between the North and South continued, even into the present.
D. the Union victory did not have a significant effect on the constitutional expansion of federal government power.
E. the Civil War may have retarded overall national industrialization rather than advancing it.

Answer 1

Answer: D