Most of the American settlers in Texas went there because of a. trading opportunities with the Indians and the Mexicans. b. the prominence of the fur trade. c. gold and other mineral deposits. d. fertile, inexpensive lands. e. legal problems in the United States.

The case was a u.s. supreme court decision that defined the scope of the u.s. congress's legislative power and how it relates to the powers of american state legislatures. the dispute in mcculloch involved the legality of the national bank and a tax that the state of maryland imposed on it.