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== =Carpetbaggers and the Scalawags=

Scalawags (origanally a term meaning worthless livestock), referred to a group of white Republican Southerners who emphasize with the federal Reconstruction. Some of the scalawags were above board and being opposed the Confederacy in earlier times and later wanted a new South to emerge from the ruins. Others cooperated with or served in the Republican governments in order to advance themselves of money making events.

Carpetbaggers: white business people from the North who moved to the South during Reconstruction. Many of them were former abolitionists who wished to continue the struggle for equality. Others saw the reconstruction of the South as a political or economic opportunity

Scalawags and Carpetbaggers were critical terms used in the aftermath of the American Civil War.