8th grade warm up 12/8/21

Scalawags were.

• Slave owners who were pro-Union.

• Non-Union slave owners.

• Pro-Union business leaders and farmers who had not owned slaves.

• Carpetbaggers who were pro-Union

Carpetbaggers is a term that referred to

• dirty carpet that white southerners carried with them to the south.

• Unwanted northerners who cleaned carpet.

• Scalawags who traveled to the south looking for higher wages.

• Cheap suitcases made of carpet fabric-what white southerners might have thought untrustworthy newcomers might carry.

Most whites Southerners did not want African Americans to have more rights.

• True

• False

African Americans made gains in higher education in the south. Northerners set up academics in the south. These academics grew into a network of colleges and universities for African Americans.

• True

• False

Some carpetbagger's were dishonest people looking to take advantage of the South's difficulties.

• True

• False

Some white southerners supported Klu Klux Klan because they saw violence as a way to oppose Republican rule.

• True

• False