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Scalawags meaning
plural of scalawag
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Alabama p 244-45 The new Republican party, made up of freedmen, Union sympathizers ( scalawags ), and northerners who had settled in the South ( carpetbaggers ), took control two years after the war ended.
He used the army to build the Republican Party in the South, based on black voters, Northern newcomers (" carpetbaggers "), and native Southern white supporters (" scalawags ").
In 1858, the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush caused thousands of miners, storekeepers, and scalawags to head north from California.
Most of the 430 Republican newspapers in the South were edited by scalawags – only 20 percent were edited by carpetbaggers.
Perman 1984, ch. 3. They formed coalitions with conservative Republicans, including scalawags and carpetbaggers, emphasizing the need for economic modernization.
Under Radical reconstruction (1867–1877), a Republican coalition of freedmen, carpetbaggers and scalawags was in control, supported by Union Army forces.