RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
RECONSTRUCTIONS EFFECTS ON AFRICAN AMERICANS
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Newly freed slaves who were competing for jobs with the poor, white population.
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Northern citizens who moved south to take advantage of the disorder and destruction.
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Southern whites had not supported the Confederacy.
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Veterans of the Civil War who refused to return to civilian life in the South.
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -In United States history, the term scalawag (sometimes spelled scallawag or scallywag) referred to white Southerners who supported Reconstruction policies and efforts after the conclusion of the American Civil War.
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: -a scamp; rascal. 2. (after the US Civil War) a White Southerner who supported the Republican Party and its policy of Black emancipation. Scallywags were viewed as traitors by their fellow Southerners. Also called: scalawag, scallawag.