Which of the following statements about general washington retreat through brooklyn and manhattan is accurate a. the british only occupied new york city for a short time after washington’s retreat. b. the retreat raised the morale of the continental army. c. by retreating washington was able to preserve a large number of troops and hold the continental aemy together. d. washington returned to new york a year later with more troops and drove the british out.

B.      He was worried that the war was lost.

both are true, the congress does have the power to create banks, even if this power is not specifically described in the constitution, since there is nothing restricting it and there is power given to the congress to make "all laws which shall be necessary and proper". maryland was not allowed to tax a branch of the national bank operating there, and the supreme court decided that no state could. both of these topics were discussed in a decision of the mcculloch v. maryland case in 1819.