Carpet Baggers Scalawags

The term carpetbagger was used by opponents of reconstruction the period.

Carpet baggers scalawags.

Louisiana state university press 2003. Pinkney and theodore ropp pp. 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. Following the american civil war if someone called you a carpetbagger or scalawag it wasn t meant as a compliment.

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. During the reconstruction period 1865 77 to denote a northerner who moved to the south. Scalawags constituted perhaps 20 percent of the white electorate. Some wanted to help the freed slaves.

The first klu klux klan was founded in 1866 in pulaski tennessee. Southern dissenters in the civil war and reconstruction. The term refers to a stranger who travels to a new region for personal gain. Among the most zones of klan activity was south carolina where in january 1871 500 masked men attacked the union county jail and lynched eight black prisoners.

Carpetbaggers and scalawags were both epithets coined by southern democrats who opposed the social change of reconstruction. Artz edited by david h. Scalawags were white southerners who supported the republican party carpetbaggers were recent arrivals in the region from the north and freedmen were freed slaves. Carpetbaggers reconsidered in a festschrift for frederick b.

Carpetbaggers and scalawags during and right after the civil war which ended in 1865 many northerners headed south for various reasons. Scalawag after the american civil war a pejorative term for a white southerner who supported the federal plan of reconstruction or who joined with the black freedmen and the so called carpetbaggers in support of republican party policies. Some wanted to make money from the south s situation. Carpetbaggers were northerners who entered the region after the war.

These people were called carpetbaggers by southerners. Terms in this set 5 define carpetbagger. White supremacy reasserted its hold on the south as. Carpetbagger derogatory term originally used in the u s.