Carpet Baggers And Scalawags

A temporary political vacuum existed in the postwar south.

Carpet baggers and scalawags.

Southern dissenters in the civil war and reconstruction. Oxford university press 1988. And seven scalawags were members of the 1875 constitutional convention 58 of the minuscule. Although carpetbagger and scalawag were originally terms of opprobrium they are now commonly used in the scholarly literature to refer to these classes of people.

Confederate military and political leaders were temporarily prohibited from participating in the political process. Following the american civil war if someone called you a carpetbagger or scalawag it wasn t meant as a compliment. Artz edited by david h. However fewer scalawags won nominations to federal offices.

15 were nominated or elected to congress 48 compared to 11 carpetbaggers and 5 blacks. Louisiana state university press 2003. Carpetbaggers reconsidered in a festschrift for frederick b. 48 scalawags were members of the 1867 constitutional convention 49 5 of the republican membership.

Scalawags were white southerners who supported the republican party carpetbaggers were recent arrivals in the region from the north and freedmen were freed slaves. Pinkney and theodore ropp pp.