Carpetbaggers and Scalawags

They were Northern Union soldiers who stayed in the South after the war, teachers, missionaries or businessmen.

• Carpetbaggers

• Tenant Farmers

• Freedman

• Scalawags

A northerner who went to the South immediately after the Civil War; especially one   who tried to gain political advantage or other advantages from the disorganized situation in southern states

• Suffrage

• Impeach

• Scalawag

• Carpetbagger

 These Southern Republicans controlled the government.

• Scalawags

• Carpetbaggers

• Tenant Farming

• Sharecroppers

 Southern whites who supported Republican policy during Reconstruction

• Freedman

• Scalawag

• Carpetbagger

• Tenant Farming

What term was used to describe Northerners who moved to the South during Reconstruction to seek political and financial gain?

• Scalawags

• Carpetbaggers

• Redeemers

• Unionists

Southerners were not happy with these people, who came down from the North trying to take advantage of the poor economy in the South, due to the loss of slave labor force

• Freedman

• Scalawags

• Rudys

• Carpetbaggers

Southerners viewed “Carpetbaggers” as

• Mean political leaders that forbid the practice

• A way to help the South rebuild its economy

• Kind people who came to the South to help them reconstruct buildings and houses

• People from the North who wanted to take advantage of the Southerners

a person from the northern states who went to the South after the Civil War to profit from the Reconstruction

• Scalawags

• Carpetbagger

• fugitive

• emancipate

nickname given by former Confederates to Southern whites who supported Republican Reconstruction of the South

• Scalawags

• Carpetbagger

• fugitive

• emancipate

Northerners who went south to make a profit from Reconstruction

• Sharecropping

• Carpetbaggers

• Scalawags

• Conservatives