Scholars Dispute Whether the Civil War Marked a Watershed in American

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 lives of black and white Americans were not transformed by the war experience.
E) None of these