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Understanding the Antebellum South: Key Aspects and Legacy

Explore the Antebellum South, the period before the American Civil War, covering topics like the Mason-Dixon Line, the Missouri Compromise, plantations, slave life, and the role of Southern belles. Gain insight into this crucial era of American history.

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Understanding the Antebellum South: Key Aspects and Legacy

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  1. The Antebellum south For Kindred background knowledge.

  2. Ante bellum Or “before” “war” • First half of the 1800s • Existing before a war; especially : existing before the American Civil War (1861 – 1865)

  3. Mason-Dixon line A line between free and slave states Runs between Pennsylvania and most of Maryland

  4. The Missouri compromiseof 1821 • Made Missouri a slave state • Made Maine a free state • Tried to balance number of free states to slave states • Tried to prohibit slavery from moving west

  5. Sugar, tobacco and cotton

  6. Plantation A large farm or estate.

  7. Slave cabins

  8. Slave passes

  9. Runaway slaves

  10. Slave patrolmen • Organized groups of white men who enforced discipline upon black slaves in the antebellum south. • They policed the slaves on plantations and hunted down fugitive slaves.

  11. Southern belle A young, unmarried woman in the plantation-owning upper class of Southern society.

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