Are there choices? I’m not sure how to answer this
"In April 1775 British soldiers, called lobsterbacks because of their red coats, andminutemen<span>—the colonists' militia—exchanged gunfire at Lexington and Concord in Massachusetts. Described as "the shot heard round the world," it signaled the start of the American Revolution and led to the creation of a new nation."</span>
Answer:
- to celebrate important victories
- to inspire the troops to go into battle
- to encourage civilians to sign up and fight
- to keep up the spirits of people back home
Explanation:
Your comment is right so let me expand on it if you don't mind.
Songs written and sung during a war are usually done to lift spirts to continue the war efforts. These songs will therefore celebrate important victories and keep up the spirits of those back home. The songs will contain patriotic overtones that will inspire troops to go into battle and encourage civilians to sign up for war.
It is doubtful that such songs will try to persuade foreign countries to get involved for sovereignty reasons and very unlikely that they will describe major military tactics so those do not fall into the hands of the enemy.
The right answer is "Both regions recognized that how enslaved people were counted would significantly affect representation."
Many issues remained unresolved during the constitutional convention. Among the most important was the subject of slavery. Slaves were close to a fifth of the population in the American colonies. Most lived in the southern colonies, where they reached 40 percent of the population. Whether slavery should be permitted and continued under the new constitution was a matter of north-south conflict, with several southern states refusing entry into the union if slavery were forbidden. So there was no serious discussion about the abolition of slavery.
The most debatable issue of slavery was the question of whether slaves would be taken into account as part of the population in determining representation in Congress or were considered as property and without the right to representation. State delegates with large populations of slaves defended the idea that slaves should be considered people in determining representation, but as property if the new government were to impose taxes on states based on population. The delegates of states where slavery had disappeared or had almost disappeared defended the idea that slaves should be included in taxes, but not in the determination of representation.
Finally the Commitment of the Three Fifths was proposed by the delegate James Wilson and adopted by the convention. By this commitment only three-fifths of the slave population would be counted toward enumeration purposes both at the time of tax distribution and at the apportionment of the members of the United States House of Representatives.
