RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
RECONSTRUCTIONS EFFECTS ON AFRICAN AMERICANS
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Question
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Southern farmers who had not owned slaves and had opposed secession from the Union
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A group of Southern planters who had been economically and socially ruined by the Civil War
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White Southerners who had previously been part of the Whig Party
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all of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -history, “scalawag” was a term used for white Southerners who supported Reconstruction and the Republican Party after the Civil War. Like “carpetbagger, ” the term “scalawag” has a long history of use as a slur.
Detailed explanation-2: -scalawag, after the American Civil War, a pejorative term for a white Southerner who supported the federal plan of Reconstruction or who joined with black freedmen and the so-called carpetbaggers in support of Republican Party policies.
Detailed explanation-3: -The term scalawag was originally used as far back as the 1840s to describe a farm animal of little value; it later came to refer to a worthless person. For opponents of Reconstruction, scalawags were even lower on the scale of humanity than carpetbaggers, as they were viewed as traitors to the South.
Detailed explanation-4: -"Scalawag” was the derogatory nickname used by conservative southern whites to describe other southern whites who were active members of the Republican Party during Reconstruction.