Carpetbaggers And Scalawags Generally

Scalawag referred to southern born radicals.

Carpetbaggers and scalawags generally.

Historian eric foner significantly revises the work on reconstruction done by the dunning school of reconstruction historiography. In practice the term carpetbaggerwas often applied to any northerner who was present in the south during the reconstruction era 1863 1877. Many carpetbaggers were said to have moved south for their own financial and political gains. Scalawags were white southerners who cooperated politically with black freedmen and northern newcomers.

Confederate military and political leaders were temporarily prohibited from participating in the political process. 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. Carpetbaggers and scalawags generally a. Supported the republican party d.

During and immediately after the civil war many northerners headed to the southern states driven by hopes of economic gain a desire to work on behalf of the newly. Carpetbagger referred to republicans who had recently migrated from the north. Supported the republican party. 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. All of the above. Belonged to the ku klux klan b. In the course of the civil war more men were killed or died of disease than in all other american wars combined.

Supported the republican party. Refusing to turn documents over to congress to investigate. Congressional reconstruction s success is best exemplified by the. Like the similar term carpetbagger the word has a long history of use as a slur in southern partisan debates.

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. Carpetbaggers and scalawags generally. Republican governments filled the void and were able to retain control by depending upon the votes of the newly enfranchised blacks. Wales james albert artist c arpetbagger and scalawag are derisive epithets which southern democrats or conservatives applied to white republicans or radicals during congressional or radical reconstruction.

Scalawags and carpetbaggers a temporary political vacuum existed in the postwar south.