Which of the following best defines the Southern Code during the slavery era? White Southerners believed women should not do cer
tain chores and gentlemen should not do manual labor. White Southerners thought free African Americans were treated worse than enslaved African Americans. White Southerners considered it their duty to provide food, shelter, and clothing to enslaved people while relieving them of responsibility. White Southerners felt there should be an immediate end to slavery and called for abolitionism.
In McCulloch v. Maryland (1819) the Supreme Court ruled that Congress had implied powers under the Necessary and Proper Clause of Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution to create the Second Bank of the United States and that the state of Maryland lacked the power to tax the Bank.
