The paleolithic people hunted meat, and gathered fruits, berries and nuts.
It was so the delegates would be free to say what was on their minds. If anything about what they said would go to the public, there would be people who would be mad at them and thus possibly hurt them. It was to protect them.
Part of history come on broski
Some political consequences were that southern cities like atlanta were completely wrecked. and that after the civil war they had to rejoin the north and the south and spent 12 years reconstructing