RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
THE RECONSTRUCTION ERA
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Question
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Southerner Democrats that turn Republican for better political opportunities
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Illegal Voters
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People who use slaves illegally
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Southern Republicans that turned democratic for political opportunities
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-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: -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.