Re write the star spangled banner meaning of the lyrics in a simple way “Oh say can you see by the dawns early light?”

“what so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming?”

“whose broad stripes and bright stars, thru the perilous fight.”

“O’er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?”

“And the rocket’s red glare, the bombs bursting in air,”

“Gave proof through the night, that our flag was still there.”

“Oh say does that star spangled banner yet wave.”

“O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.”

a, c, & d are correct:

they wanted lands to settle the extra population.

they wanted new markets for english goods.

they wanted to avoid civil war.

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