What is meant by the statement that the Antebellum South?

Question: What is meant by the statement that the Antebellum South!?

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The antebellum south was an extremely rigid society ruled by a few wealthy plantation owners!. Lower on the social strata were yeomen farmers; below them were poor whites, free blacks, and slaves!. The ruling class encouraged bigotry among the poor whites who then served to control the large slave population through violence and intimidation!. This strict hierarchy has been referred to as an “ordered” society!. Honor became very important in the antebellum south!. If a southern man's honor was insulted the dispute was usually settled by a duel!. Obviously this dueling system also served to encourage violence!. The violence inherent in slavery and constant duels over honor created an incredibly violent antebellum south!. For this reason women in antebellum society were thought of as delicate and in need of protection!.
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Status Quo ante bellum is the latin phrase for return to status before the war!.

For instance, after the War of 1812, a peace between Britain and the US called for Status Quo Ante Bellum, meaning the war was a draw and that the boundaries that were in place before the war would remain the bounadaries after the war!.

The phrase Antebellum south refers to the south before the US Civil War, it was a term coined after the war was over to refer to the southern slave states during the period before the war!.

As to their economy, it was not a colonial economy, it was an agrarian economy based on crops like tobacco, rice, cotton, etc!.

At the time, the south had more millionaires then the north had and was purchasing large amounts of goods from overseas(wine, china, clothes, etc)

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