The term carpetbaggers refers to northerners who moved to the south after the civil war during reconstruction.
Carpetbaggers and scalawags generally.
Supported the republican party.
Meanwhile white southerners who supported reconstruction era republicans were called scalawags by their political enemies who considered them traitors to the south and just as bad if not worse.
Scalawags were white southerners who cooperated politically with black freedmen and northern newcomers.
Republican governments filled the void and were able to retain control by depending upon the votes of the newly enfranchised blacks.
Congressional reconstruction s success is best exemplified by the.
Scalawag referred to southern born radicals.
Carpetbaggers and scalawags generally supported the republican party.
In practice the term carpetbaggerwas often applied to any northerner who was present in the south during the reconstruction era 1863 1877.
Scalawags and carpetbaggers a temporary political vacuum existed in the postwar south.
Refusing to turn documents over to congress to investigate.
All of the above.
Carpetbaggers and scalawags generally a.
Lost the right to vote under radical reconstruction c.
Belonged to the ku klux klan b.
Supported the republican party d.
Many carpetbaggers were said to have moved south for their own financial and political gains.
Like the similar term carpetbagger the word has a long history of use as a slur in southern partisan debates.
Confederate military and political leaders were temporarily prohibited from participating in the political process.
Grant was guilty of a.
In united states history the term scalawag sometimes spelled scallawag or scallywag referred to white southerners who supported reconstruction policies and efforts after the conclusion of the american civil war.
Carpetbagger referred to republicans who had recently migrated from the north.
Supported the republican party.
Historian eric foner significantly revises the work on reconstruction done by the dunning school of reconstruction historiography.
The term is closely associated with scalawag a similarly pejorative word used to describe native white southerners who supported the republican party led reconstruction.
Carpetbaggers and scalawags generally.