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They were called Scalawags. They intended on supporting the South in Reconstruction. The ones who took advantage of the Reconstruction era were carpetbaggers.
The term "Carpet Bagger" was derived from the Northerners who came into the South after the Civil War during the Reconstruction era, believed to have come to the South for private profits. While "scalawag" was a negative term used against White Southerners by other White Southerners, stating they are in support of Reconstruction for private gain.
Not as much abandonded as it was forced over by democrat racist's who came into power afterwards and abandonded the reconstruction because they saw black people as second class citizens.
During Reconstruction, a new system of farming was developed. The neo-peonage method of using tenant farmers on farms came to be known as sharecropping. The economic devastation of the south led to most of the land being used for cash crops rather than subsistence farming. Cash crops were the traditional antebellum ones like tobacco, cotton, sugar and rice.
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They were called Scalawags. They intended on supporting the South in Reconstruction. The ones who took advantage of the Reconstruction era were carpetbaggers.
Carpetbaggers, often used pejoratively, was the term used for Northerners who came to the South to implement the policies of Reconstruction. They have been frequently accused of taking advantage of the political, economic and social upheaval in the South at that time.
Yes, if they had any power in that decision, but reconstruction still struck the south harshly by northern carpetbaggers and scalawags who came to try to make money off the devasted south.
Yes, if they had any power in that decision, but reconstruction still struck the south harshly by northern carpetbaggers and scalawags who came to try to make money off the devasted south.
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because corrupt northerners came here trying to make money from a devastated South
The term "Carpet Bagger" was derived from the Northerners who came into the South after the Civil War during the Reconstruction era, believed to have come to the South for private profits. While "scalawag" was a negative term used against White Southerners by other White Southerners, stating they are in support of Reconstruction for private gain.
White southerners who supported Reconstruction were referred to as "Scalawags", while northerners who came south to assist were called "Carpetbaggers,", an equally derisive term inferring they carried everything they owned in a carpetbag and could move quickly. Both groups traveled the South for their own personal economic gain.