Antebellum

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"Antebellum" is an expression derived from Latin that means "before war" (ante, "before," and bellum, "war"). In United States history and historiography, "antebellum" is commonly used, in lieu of "pre-Civil War," in reference to the period of increasing sectionalism that led up to the American Civil War.

In that sense, the Antebellum Period is often considered to have begun with the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, though it is sometimes stipulated to extend back as early as 1812. The period after the Civil War is called the "Postbellum," or Reconstruction, era.

Architecture

The term antebellum is also used to describe the architecture of the pre-war South. Many Southern plantation houses use this style, including:

• Boone Hall
• The Hermitage
• Longwood (Natchez, Mississippi)
• Middleton Place
• Belle Meade Plantation
• Carnton Plantation
• Waveland Plantation
• Rippavilla
• Rattle & Snap Plantation
• Tara Plantation (Fictional, From Gone with the Wind)

The Old Governor\'s Mansion www.gcsu.edu/mansion

See also

• History of the United States (1789-1849)
• History of the United States (1849-1865)
• Origins of the American Civil War

External links

• Antebellum Slavery (PBS)
• Aspects of the Antebellum Christmas
• Documenting the American South (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Antebellum American History, 1814-1864 University of Colorado.

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