Carpetbaggers And Scalawags Generally

Supported the republican party d.

Carpetbaggers and scalawags generally.

Carpetbaggers and scalawags generally. Scalawag referred to southern born radicals. Republican governments filled the void and were able to retain control by depending upon the votes of the newly enfranchised blacks. 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. Carpetbagger referred to republicans who had recently migrated from the north. All of the above. Congressional reconstruction s success is best exemplified by the.

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. 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. Belonged to the ku klux klan b. Confederate military and political leaders were temporarily prohibited from participating in the political process.

Like the similar term carpetbagger the word has a long history of use as a slur in southern partisan debates. In the course of the civil war more men were killed or died of disease than in all other american wars combined. The term is closely associated with scalawag a similarly pejorative word used to describe native white southerners who supported the republican party led reconstruction. Scalawags and carpetbaggers a temporary political vacuum existed in the postwar south.

Lost the right to vote under radical reconstruction c. Refusing to turn documents over to congress to investigate. Carpetbaggers and scalawags generally a. Supported the republican party.

Many carpetbaggers were said to have moved south for their own financial and political gains. 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. 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.