The decision in Marbury v. Madison (1803) expanded the power of the Supreme Court by
(a) restricting the use of the elastic clause
(b) establishing the power of judicial review
(c) upholding the constitutionality of the National Bank
(d) interpreting the interstate commerce clause
Answer: (b) establishing the power of judicial review
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A) It focused on a chemical accident that made a black man invisible. B) It was about a young black man who migrates to New York. C) It involved the rape of a black woman by a white man and her son's efforts to exact revenge. D) It was about blacks surviving in society by adopting white ways, including discrimination against darker skin.
Discuss the reasons why the U.S. government announced a policy of neutrality at the outbreak of war in Europe in 1914, as well as the difficulties the United States had in maintaining such a policy prior to its entry into the war in 1917
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Between 1000-600 B.C.E., Hindu priests known as brahmans became
a. increasingly poor and less popular b. more popular than ever because of their humility c. less powerful as they shared power with a new priestly class d. increasingly wealthy and yet resented e. extinct as the religion died out
To resist being made complicit in the slave system, northern states passed __________ that banned the forcible return of slaves to the South
A) fugitive slave laws B) personal liberty laws C) constitutional amendments D) local ordinances