RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
PRESIDENT LINCOLNS LEGACY
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They believed both groups did not have the best interest of the South at heart.
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They wanted the carpetbaggers to give them more money.
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They felt the scalawags should go live in the North.
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -"Scalawags” were white Southerners who supported the Republican party, “carpetbaggers” were recent arrivals in the region from the North, and freedmen were freed slaves.
Detailed explanation-2: -Carpetbagger” and “scalawag” are derisive epithets which southern Democrats, or Conservatives, applied to white Republicans, or radicals, during Congressional or Radical Reconstruction. Carpetbagger referred to Republicans who had recently migrated from the North; scalawag referred to southern-born radicals.
Detailed explanation-3: -The post-Civil War opponents of the scalawags claimed they were disloyal to traditional values and white supremacy. Scalawags were particularly hated by 1860s–1870s Southern Democrats, who called Scalawags traitors to their region, which was long known for its widespread chattel slavery of Black people.
Detailed explanation-4: -These “carpetbaggers”–whom many in the South viewed as opportunists looking to exploit and profit from the region’s misfortunes–supported the Republican Party, and would play a central role in shaping new southern governments during Reconstruction.