Carpetbaggers & Scalawags

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Define carpetbagger

A traveler who arrives to a new region with only a satchel (or carpetbag) of possessions, and who attempts to gain control over his new surroundings, often against the will of the original inhabitants

Many scalawags were...

Former Whigs (conservatives) who saw the republicans as the successors to their old party

The majority of scalawags were...

Non-slave holding small farmers s f merchants, artisans, and other professionals who had remained loyal to the union during the CW

Who were carpetbaggers?

Well educated members of the middle class; teachers, merchants, journalists, or other types of businessmen

Who were Scalawags?

White southern republicans who made up the biggest group of delegates to the radical reconstruction-era legislatures.


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