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Scalawag
A southerner who supported the Republican Party.
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.
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Scalawags were white Southerners who supported Reconstruction policies and efforts after the conclusion of the American Civil War.
(A scalawag was a US southerner who supported the policies of Reconstruction after the Civil War.)"It was not unusual for a scalawag to be run out of town by the families of Confederate veterans.""A scalawag was usually out to gain money or power by supporting the actions of the carpetbaggers from the North."
Scalawags were white Southerners who supported Reconstruction policies and efforts after the conclusion of the American Civil War.
The ascent of Andrew Johnson, a Southerner, to the presidency eventually led to a bitter clash with Congress. Though Congress and Johnson agreed that slavery should be abolished and that the power of the planter class had to be broken down, Congress supported federal guarantees for Black citizenship while Johnson insisted that the South should be permitted to reestablish White supremacy.
The ascent of Andrew Johnson, a Southerner, to the presidency eventually led to a bitter clash with Congress. Though Congress and Johnson agreed that slavery should be abolished and that the power of the planter class had to be broken down, Congress supported federal guarantees for Black citizenship while Johnson insisted that the South should be permitted to reestablish White supremacy.
A scalawag was a term used during the Reconstruction era in the United States to describe Southern whites who supported the Republican Party and its policies of promoting civil rights and rebuilding the South after the Civil War. They were often seen as traitors by other Southerners who opposed Reconstruction.
Democrats blocked many federal reconstruction policies, and reversed many reforms of the reconstruction legislature. This voting block was known as the Solid South.
They didn't have much economic opportunity in the old South.