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The United States remained divided fifty years after the Civil War. What

evidence from the text supports this conclusion?

Fifty years later, most of the war's veterans were dead ... Even though the states were united again, no one built a monument to both sides.

Fifty years later, most of the war's veterans were dead." "Around the country, towns and cities had begun building monuments in their memory."

Everyone was building statues of either the north or the south, not both together.