Carpetbaggers And Scalawags Generally

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.

Carpetbaggers and scalawags generally supported the republican party. 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. Like the similar term carpetbagger the word has a long history of use as a slur in southern partisan debates. Republican governments filled the void and were able to retain control by depending upon the votes of the newly enfranchised blacks.

The term carpetbaggers refers to northerners who moved to the south after the civil war during reconstruction. 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. All of the above. 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. 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. Scalawag referred to southern born radicals. Historian eric foner significantly revises the work on reconstruction done by the dunning school of reconstruction historiography.

Carpetbaggers and scalawags generally. Lost the right to vote under radical reconstruction c. Belonged to the ku klux klan b. Refusing to turn documents over to congress to investigate.

Carpetbagger referred to republicans who had recently migrated from the north. Congressional reconstruction s success is best exemplified by the. Supported the republican party d. Carpetbaggers and scalawags generally a.

Many carpetbaggers were said to have moved south for their own financial and political gains. Grant was guilty of a. Scalawags and carpetbaggers a temporary political vacuum existed in the postwar south. In practice the term carpetbaggerwas often applied to any northerner who was present in the south during the reconstruction era 1863 1877.

Supported the republican party.