Author Question: Scholars dispute whether the Civil War marked a watershed in American history for all of the ... (Read 107 times)

rl · **on:** Jul 4, 2018

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

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.

Question 2

To a degree, the Navigation Laws were beneficial to colonists because

a. colonists were paid subsidies for producing ships' parts and stores.
b. tobacco growers were guaranteed a monopoly of the British market for their crop.
c. colonial trading ships were protected by the Royal Navy.
d. colonists did not have to deal with British intermediaries when marketing their goods.
e. they helped create a surplus of money.