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"Antebellum" is an expression derived from Latin that means "before war" (ante, "before," and bellum, "war"). Latin ( lingua Latīna, laˈtiːna is an Italic language, historically spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome.

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. Sectionalism is to develop a distinct identity based on ethnicity customs laws language economics or culture Causes of the war See also Origins of the American Civil War, Timeline of events leading to the American Civil War The coexistence of a slave-owning South 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 The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opened new lands repealed the Missouri Compromise of The period after the Civil War is called the "Postbellum," or Reconstruction, era.

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Romanticism

There a was a land of Cavaliers and Cotton Fields called the Old South. Romanticism is a complex artistic literary and intellectual movement that originated in the second half of the 18th century in Western Europe, and gained strength during the Here in this pretty world, Gallantry took its last bow. Here was the last ever to be seen of Knights and their Ladies Fair, of Master and of Slave. Look for it only in books, for it is no more than a dream remembered, a Civilization gone with the wind. . .

— From the opening of the film Gone with the Wind (1939)

The Industrial Revolution is mythically substituted for by the widespread destruction of Sherman's March to the Sea from Atlanta to the Atlantic Ocean and by the military occupation of the defeated Confederacy by Union forces during the period termed Reconstruction implemented in Florida, Tennessee, or the Trans-Mississippi states. Gone with the Wind is a 1939 American dramatic - romantic - War film adapted from Margaret Mitchell 's 1936 The Industrial Revolution was a period in the late 18th and early 19th centuries when major changes in agriculture manufacturing and transportation had a profound effect on the Sherman's March to the Sea is the name commonly given to the Savannah Campaign conducted in late 1864 by Maj The Confederate States of America (also called the Confederacy, the Confederate States, and CSA) formed as the government set up from 1861 During the American Civil War, the Union was a name used to refer to the federal government of the United States, which was supported by the twenty-three Florida ( is a state located in the southeastern region of the United States, bordering Alabama to the northwest and Georgia to the Tennessee ( is a state located in the Southern United States. The Trans-Mississippi was the geographic area west of the Mississippi River during the 19th century containing the states of Arkansas, Louisiana,

More than any other single American author, Margaret Mitchell's 1936 novel, Gone with the Wind and the subsequent 1939 film, have permanently altered historical perspective and fixed a slanted popularized image of pre-Civil War American history and are good examples of the romanticized view. Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell Marsh ( November 8 1900 – August 16 1949) popularly known as Margaret Mitchell was an American This is about the 1936 American Novel. For the film see Gone with the Wind (film Gone with the Wind is a 1936 American In the romanticized view, the Antebellum Period is often looked back on with sentimental nostalgia by some whites in the U. S. South, as an idealized pre-industrial highly-structured genteel and stable agrarian society, in contrast to the anxiety and struggle of modern life. The issue of slavery is largely ignored in Gone with the Wind — although Mitchell does make a point of examining the relationship between the slaves and their masters on the southern plantations. D. W. Griffith's 1915 film, The Birth of a Nation, romanticized the pre-war South in a very similar way. David Llewelyn Wark "D W" Griffith (January 22 1875 &ndash July 23 1948 was a premier pioneering Academy Award -winning American Film director. The Birth of a Nation (also known as The Clansman) a Silent film directed by D

Because of slavery, and the many human rights abuses it spawned, many African Americans find the romanticizing of this era to be offensive, and often see a coded reference of approval of the racism of the period in the term "Old South", though the defenders of this line of thought claim that the only celebration is that of the chivalry and honor of the Old South and that racism has nothing to do with their admiration. As a social-economic system slavery is a legal institution under which a Person (called "a slave" is compelled to work for another Human rights refers to the "basic Rights and freedoms to which all humans are entitled African Americans or Black Americans are citizens or residents of the United States who have origins in any of the black populations of Africa

Architecture

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

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References

  1. ^ Welcome To Monmouth Plantation
  2. ^ Old Governor’s Mansion

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Dictionary

antebellum

-adjective

  1. Of the time period prior to a war.
  2. In the United States of America, of the period prior to the American Civil War, especially in reference to the culture of the southern states.
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