Antebellum

Throughout the history of America, citizens have always found issues with the moral standing of the government and its policies. These people also offered their own solutions to the moralization of the government and its laws through significant changes to the institution itself. Movements like this are referred to as reforms, which, simply put are the improvements of corrupt institutions for the betterment of both the individual and society itself. During the mid-nineteenth century, America was in dire need of reform. At the time of the Antebellum period, there were a large variety of reform movements all seeking different improvements each in its own way. While many of these movements failed, the ferment of reform itself achieved…

I Need You Now “I Need You Now,” by Lady Antebellum, was featured in the 2012 film Zero Dark Thirty, and it was used in television series such as Hellcats and The Glades. The song tells a realistic story about a man and a woman who loved each other, but their pride kept them apart. In the beginning, the woman sings about all of the "Picture perfect memories scattered all around the floor" (line 1,2). All of the perfect things they've done together, came to an end. She missed him, and now she's…

Murders continued to increase during the pre Civil War era also referred to as the antebellum era. The reason behind all these murders ranged from jealousy to money. James Gordon Bennett in “The Recent Tragedy”, Lincoln in “Remarkable Case of Arrest for Murder” and Nathaniel Hawthorne in “A show of wax-figures” discuss how money, professions, and jealousy played a role in murders. On the other hand authors such as Lisa C Tolbert in “Murder in Franklin: The Mysteries of Small-Town Slavery” argue…

Fauxwood Plantation Shutters Give Style Antebellum One of the most romantic periods of architecture and interior designs is referred to now as the antebellum period, which literally translates as ‘before the war’ – in this case, the American Civil War. In particular, the antebellum design refers to the old South, with elegant plantation homes appearing in the early 1800s, characterised by Greek or Classical revival touches or the grand federal style. Today, this period is much sought after by…

Antebellum (pre-Civil War) America to contemporary (modern) America Starting from the pre-Civil war years between 1820 and 1860, America underwent the most chaotic experience in its history. During this period, the nation saw its people being developed from underdeveloped farmers and frontiersmen into becoming members of an urbanized economic powerhouse (Layson, 2014). America therefore in this period experienced five major trends in their life as the agricultural south became more separated…

The transformation of the antebellum south to a culturally diverse community occurred before I was born in 1995. I can’t imagine a society that needs to be told a statement like Martin Luther King Jr. said in 1963, “I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.” The Civil Rights era should have been seen as a new beginning as a society with an opportunity for…

War, Texas begins to rebuild its economic, social, and political order under the new federal laws regarding emancipation. The shift from a plantation economy with power held by the land owners calls for a “redefinition of the relationship between blacks and whites.” Whites southerners, rejecting the shift from antebellum life, use violence to maintain white supremacy by forming rebellions under organizations such as the Ku Klux Klan. Such organizations eventually force the national government…

The time period between the end of the Revolutionary War and the Civil war is commonly known as the Antebellum Period. Many different movements occurred throughout the period which changed the way America was sculpted. Some movements that occurred include the Abolitionist movement, the creation of canals and railroads in the North, the creation of the public school systems, the industrialization movement of the North, and a movement known as the Second Awaking. All of these movements…

There are two myths that shroud and define the Antebellum South. There is the myth born from “Gone with the Wind” of a South consisting only of vast plantations that churned out cash crops like cotton, tobacco, rice, and sugar cane. This was to the satisfaction of wealthy plantation owners who spent their days sipping tea under Oak trees draped in Spanish moss. Lavish, Greek-style plantation homes housed these affluent white, Christian families that consisted of gentrified men and beautiful,…

During the Gettysburg address, Abraham Lincoln stated, “that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.” This quote embodies the lasting impact of Antebellum Reform, and its demonstration of American freedom. This freedom was leveraged to create changes that aided in the betterment of our nation. The changes made within Antebellum Reform can still be felt to this day, and that leaves us to wonder: What caused these movements to occur when they…