USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Scalawag: Name given by former Confederates to Southern whites who supported Republican Reconstruction of the South. Carpetbagger: Name given to Northern whites who moved South after the Civil War and supported the Republicans. Corruption: Dishonest or illegal actions.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Redeemers were a political coalition in the Southern United States during the Reconstruction Era that followed the Civil War. Redeemers were the Southern wing of the Democratic Party. They sought to regain their political power and enforce white supremacy.

Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -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.