<span>defense and health care programs
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Health care programs are known to cost the federal budget over fifty percent of the total, with defense following closely. The federal government has invested heavily in healthcare welfare related projects.
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The Freedman's Bureau was created to help former black slaves and poor whites in the South after the Civil War. Giving them education and medical help was very important in helping them recover from the revolution and helped the freedmen to be able to live on their own.
"D. an <span>openness to new ideas and experiences" is not an element of nationalism, since this would imply that people would be open to welcoming new cultures into their country, which is not the case.</span>
<em>A promise that William Travis made in his letter written from inside the Alamo on February 24th was;</em>
D. To never surrender or retreat
<u>"</u><em><u>The enemy has demanded a surrender at discretion, otherwise, the garrison are to be put to the sword, if the fort is taken. I have answered the demand with a cannon shot, and our flag still waves proudly from the walls. </u></em><em><u>I shall never surrender or retreat.</u></em><u>"</u>
The government is not above the law and the will of the people.