Brattonsville Reenactment - 10/19/08

I attended that Brattonsville reenactment on October 19, 2008. I was more interesting than I thought it would have been. I got there a little late and the battle had already started. The conferderates won the battle. After it was done, all of the actors fired a shot in the air to honor the people who died in the real war. Then they fired three caps off to make sure the chambers were clear. As I was walking back leaving, there was a little tent off to the side. It was the medical tent where they were re attaching some's finger which was "severed" during the battle. The cannons which were fired off randomly was interesting. When the cannons were shot none of the men would fall dead. So it was off a little.

Why reconstruction was a faliure...

Even though reconstruction was successful after the Civil War, it was still a failure. There is a huge reason to why it was a failure. The Union and the states all worked hard together to form what they had. Both sides tried to do things to help each other before the war. Even though these changes were tried it lead to the war. After the war, the south was destroyed in some locations. The Union allowed the south to rejoin the states I basically because they felt sorry for them. Once they rejoined, the north helped re-build the south. The rebuilding of the south by the north was the failure. The south started the war because Lincoln became president. They lost and destroyed there on cities. They should have rebuild them by themselves since they startes all of it.

Missouri Compromise

The Missouri Compromise was a Line that was put in place to help decide whether the new territory will be a slave state or a free state. To make this easier the Missouri Compromise was placed. The line was the 36 degree 30'. Any thing north of this line was a free state and anything below it became a free state. The south wasn't to found of this because they the states would not be equal.

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