Francis Scott Key wrote the Star Spangled Banner
Urbanization is moving from a rural area to a city, So, one way it could have affected the country is a bunch of people moving to cities from rural areas. More then two million people were moving from their rural areas to the cities.
I believe the Sino-Japanese War.
According to John B. Gordon, a Southern point of view regarding the power of states under the <span>Constitution was that state sovereignty was more important than federal power. </span>