
Carpetbaggers and Scalawags
Authored by John Robinson
Social Studies
8th Grade

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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
A Northerner who moved to the South after the Civil War seeking political or economic advantage.
snowbird
carpetbaggers
scalawags
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
A white person in the South who worked with the Federal Government during the Reconstruction period after the Civil War
carpetbaggers
scalawags
terrorist
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Which word means Northern intruders that moved to the South to support the Republicans and Reconstruction?
scalawag
carpetbagger
graft
comprehensive
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
White Southerners working with Republicans were scornfully called ____________________.
carpetbaggers
scalawags
Black Republicans
freedmen
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Many scalawags who did not want the wealthy planters to regain power were owners of small
farms.
herds of livestock.
stores.
textile mills.
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Northerners who moved south after the Civil War to help with the reconstruction effort.
Radical Republicans
Scalawags
Yankees
Carpetbaggers
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
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
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