Carpetbaggers and Scalawags

A Northerner who moved to the South after the Civil War seeking political or economic advantage.

• snowbird

• carpetbaggers

• scalawags

A white person in the South who worked with the Federal Government during the Reconstruction period after the Civil War

• carpetbaggers

• scalawags

• terrorist

Which word means Northern intruders that moved to the South to support the Republicans and Reconstruction?

• scalawag

• carpetbagger

• graft

• comprehensive

White Southerners working with Republicans were scornfully called ____________________.

• carpetbaggers

• scalawags

• Black Republicans

• freedmen

Many scalawags who did not want the wealthy planters to regain power were owners of small

• farms.

• herds of livestock.

• stores.

• textile mills.

Northerners who moved south after the Civil War to help with the reconstruction effort.

• Radical Republicans

• Scalawags

• Yankees

• Carpetbaggers

What term was used to describe Northerners who moved to the South during the Reconstruction era to seek personal gain?

• A) Scalawags

• B) Carpetbaggers

• C) Freedmen

• D) Abolitionists

Which group was primarily composed of Southern whites who supported Reconstruction and the Republican Party after the Civil War?

• A) Carpetbaggers

• B) Scalawags

• C) Ku Klux Klan

• D) Radical Republicans

Carpetbaggers were often perceived negatively by Southerners because they were seen as:

• A) Supporters of slavery

• B) Exploiters of the South's post-war turmoil

• C) Advocates for Southern independence

• D) Defenders of the Confederacy

Scalawags were often criticized by other Southerners because they:

• A) Supported the Confederacy

• B) Opposed Reconstruction

• C) Collaborated with Northern Republicans

• D) Fought for the Union