In McCulloch v. Maryland, what did the Supreme Court declare?
A) Congress lacked the power to charter a national bank.
B) Federal power superseded state power; states could not interfere with the federal government exercising its power.
C) The state of Maryland was superior to the United States.
D) The Supreme Court had the power to declare an act of the federal government unconstitutional.
E) A college had a right to a charter.
B
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A) warfare with competing tribes B) extreme drought C) the onset of a rapidly colder climate known as the "Little Ice Age" that adversely affected their agriculture D) rampant disease introduced by another unknown tribe or an animal
The leader of the American Expeditionary Force was
a. Hiram Johnson. b. Douglas MacArthur. c. John Pershing. d. George Creel.
Postcolonialism is best defined as
A) a theory that critically examines the discourses that define the relationship between the countries of the Western heartland and the rest of the world. B) a cultural movement that criticized the goals and methods of Modernism in literature and art, and more generally attacked the search for inherent truth and universal values. C) the process of analyzing a text so as to reveal its indeterminacy, ambiguity, and independent existence. D) the process of critically examining the representations of the truth and then working to deconstruct those to find inherent truth. E) the extreme denial of the possibility to find inherent truth through reason or faith.
Benjamin "Pap" Singleton was the leader of which of the following?
A. the Exodusters who migrated o Kansas after Reconstruction B. the African Americans serving in the US Congress during Reconstruction C. the leader of the Radical Republicans during Reconstruction D. the colonial in command of the Seventh Cavalry