USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Carpetbaggers, northern whites who had moved south to become rich in politics as members of the Republican Party, and the Scalawags, southern whites who had joined the Republican Party, were the embodiment of corruption and abuse of power that hated southerners.

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: -Scalawags were white Southerners who supported the policies of Reconstruction. This meant that they backed the Republican Party or assisted Black freedmen and Northern newcomers. Therefore, the majority of Southerners saw them as traitors.

Detailed explanation-4: -Most of those termed “scalawags” during Reconstruction had been: non-slaveholding white farmers from the southern upcountry prior to the Civil War. Sharecropping: was preferred by African-Americans to gang labor (because they were less subject to supervision).

Detailed explanation-5: -Two of the most prominent scalawags were General James Longstreet, one of Robert E. Lee’s top generals, and Joseph E. Brown, who had been the wartime governor of Georgia. During the 1870s, many scalawags left the Republican Party and joined the conservative-Democrat coalition.