Carpetbaggers And Scalawags Generally

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.

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 were white southerners who cooperated politically with black freedmen and northern newcomers. Congressional reconstruction s success is best exemplified by the. Grant was guilty of a.

Refusing to turn documents over to congress to investigate. All of the above. Supported the republican party. Supported the republican party.

Historian eric foner significantly revises the work on reconstruction done by the dunning school of reconstruction historiography. The term carpetbaggers refers to northerners who moved to the south after the civil war during reconstruction. Supported the republican party d. Many carpetbaggers were said to have moved south for their own financial and political gains.

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 and carpetbaggers a temporary political vacuum existed in the postwar south. Belonged to the ku klux klan b. In practice the term carpetbaggerwas often applied to any northerner who was present in the south during the reconstruction era 1863 1877.

Carpetbaggers and scalawags generally 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. In the course of the civil war more men were killed or died of disease than in all other american wars combined. Republican governments filled the void and were able to retain control by depending upon the votes of the newly enfranchised blacks.

Carpetbagger referred to republicans who had recently migrated from the north. Scalawag referred to southern born radicals. Lost the right to vote under radical reconstruction c. 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.