Carpetbaggers And Scalawags Generally

Carpetbaggers and scalawags generally.

Carpetbaggers and scalawags generally.

All of the above. Republican governments filled the void and were able to retain control by depending upon the votes of the newly enfranchised blacks. Many carpetbaggers were said to have moved south for their own financial and political gains. Confederate military and political leaders were temporarily prohibited from participating in the political process.

Refusing to turn documents over to congress to investigate. Carpetbaggers and scalawags generally a. The term is closely associated with scalawag a similarly pejorative word used to describe native white southerners who supported the republican party led reconstruction. 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. 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. Supported the republican party.

The term carpetbaggers refers to northerners who moved to the south after the civil war during reconstruction. Carpetbagger referred to republicans who had recently migrated from the north. 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. Congressional reconstruction s success is best exemplified by the.

In the course of the civil war more men were killed or died of disease than in all other american wars combined. Carpetbaggers and scalawags generally supported the republican party. Scalawags and carpetbaggers a temporary political vacuum existed in the postwar south. Lost the right to vote under radical reconstruction c.

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. Scalawags were white southerners who cooperated politically with black freedmen and northern newcomers. Belonged to the ku klux klan b.

Like the similar term carpetbagger the word has a long history of use as a slur in southern partisan debates.