rical “Age of Jackson” as part of Jackson’s contribution asPresident.Federalism waned in power and declined as an indirect resultof the war. During the war, the Federalists became upset over howthe war was being conducted. New England leaders, many of whomwere Federalists, organized the Hartford Convention. The purposeof the convention was to study ways in which to protest theconduct of the war. People participating in the convention, werecaught by their opponents and accused of treason. Neverrecovering from this blow, the Federalist party declined inpower.The main issues over which the war started, weren’t resolvedduring the war, but rather, after the war. Without the warthough, the process of solving these problems might never havebeen started, and the problems might never have been solved. Thismade the war very significant to the United States and had agreat influence on American history. For historians to call it .) Was the ending realistic or not? In my opinion, the ending to The Pit and the Pendulum was not realistic because more time wasneeded for different things to happen the way they did. When the walls started to close in on theguy being tortured, the people outside of the place he was in, were fighting in some kind of battleto get through this place to save the guy. The hot iron walls were getting closer, and closer still,until they were so close that they were starting to burn him. Then just as the guy was about to fallinto the pit that the walls were pushing him towards, the people who were outside fighting, gotthrough and started to push the walls back. Just as he was about to fall in, an arm reached out andgrabbed him, saving him from his treacherous death. Now, in my opinion, this all could not havehappened that fast. I mean, the person could have tried to save him, but he probably wouldn’thave made it.2.) Which torture was worse? Why I think that the worse torture in The Pit and the Pend...
