Read the excerpt below and answer the question. And where is that band who so vauntingly swore That the havoc of war and the bat
tle's confusion, A home and a country, should leave us no more? In this excerpt from "The Star Spangled Banner," Francis Scott Key uses the word vauntingly to describe what? the destruction caused by the battle the willpower of the American people the terrifying power of the naval ships the overconfidence of the British troops
It was impossible for the federal government to enforce the proclamation in the areas where it actually applied—the states in rebellion that were not under federal control.
