Which of the following was a difficulty faced by the ottoman empire in the 1700s and 1800s?           a. lack of trained artisans   b. financial independence   c. refusal to trade with other nations   d. rebelling ethnic groups

B. Financial Independence 

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.