Ante-bellum period? please help?

Question

can someone please explain what it was? im doing a paper on it and its so confusing

p.s please posts sites if you can!

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Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

Antebellum is the period before the American Civil War from approximately 1820 to 1860.  Here are some sites that might help.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antebellum

http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancest...