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Question 4 • AL-United States History I: Beginnings to the Industrial Revolution A-CR

The Maryland state law involved in the Supreme Court case of McCulloch v. Maryland

Answer
A
established a federal bank.
B
established a state bank.
C
taxed a state bank.
D
taxed a federal bank.

Explanation

Maryland imposed a tax on the Second Bank of the United States, a federal institution. The Supreme Court ruled in McCulloch v. Maryland that Maryland could not tax the federal bank, because federal law takes precedence over conflicting state law. Therefore, the law taxed a federal bank.

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