RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
RECONSTRUCTIONS EFFECTS ON AFRICAN AMERICANS
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Question
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They wanted to profit by taking advantage of the poor economy in the South
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They created economical clothing for freedmen.
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They volunteered to assist the South on Reconstruction.
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To assist freedmen moving to the West with financial assistance.
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Detailed explanation-1: -In reality, most Reconstruction-era carpetbaggers were well-educated members of the middle class; they worked as teachers, merchants, journalists or other types of businessmen, or at the Freedman’s Bureau, an organization created by Congress to provide aid for newly liberated black Americans.
Detailed explanation-2: -What did the Carpetbaggers do? The Carpetbaggers who were looking to make money took advantage of the economic plight of the Southerners. In order to finance the re-building of the South and its infrastructure the state governments raised property tax rates. In some places, the property tax rate increased ten-fold.
Detailed explanation-3: -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.