Noun pejorative archaic a scrawny cow.
Comparing carpetbaggers and scalawags.
Carpetbaggers were northerners who entered the region after the war.
During and immediately after the civil war many northerners headed to the southern states driven by hopes of economic gain a desire to work on behalf of the newly.
Scalawags were southerners who joined with former slaves to support the republicans party during reconstruction after the civil war.
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Pejorative us archaic or historical any white southerner who supported the federal plan of reconstruction after the american civil war or who joined with the black freedmen and the carpetbaggers in support of republican party policies.
Scalawags along with carpetbaggers were also targets of violence mainly by the ku klux klan.
In an 1868 newspaper interview nathan forrest the grand wizard of the kkk stated that the klan s primary opposition was to the loyal leagues republican state governments people such as tennessee governor william gannaway brownlow and other.
A traveler who arrives to a new region with only a satchel or carpetbag of possessions and who attempts to gain control over his new surroundings often against the will of the.
Meanwhile white southerners who supported reconstruction era republicans were called scalawags by their political enemies who considered them traitors to the south and just as bad if not worse.
Carpetbaggers and scalawags were both epithets coined by southern democrats who opposed the social change of reconstruction.
Although the term is still used today its origins are steeped in opposition to.
Carpetbaggers were northerners who went to the south after the.
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Pejorative archaic a rascal.
The name is derived from suitcases made of carpet carried by many of the northern immigrants.
This cartoon depicts politician carl schurz as a carpetbagger and it was made by thomas nast in 1872.
Both the groups supported the rights of the black people which.