the period before a war. specifically the civil war in the south
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The 2 main cash crops during the Antebellum period were cotton and rice.
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The Antebellum Period in American history is generally the period between the War of 1812 and the US Civil War. However, some historians date this period to be from the adoption of the Constitution in 1789 until the beginning of the Civil War. The term literally means "before the war".
The term Antebellum South refers to the period before the start of the Civil War. The South had an agrarian economy that relied heavily on slave labor.