Questions On Scalawags And Southern Whites

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Define 1. Scalawags: Southerners who wanted to be more like the northerners and other southerners believed they only wanted to join in the northerners’ evil money making plans 2. KKK: The Ku Klux Klan was a secret hate group in the South that formed after the Civil War to suppress the rights of the freed slaves and oppose the carpetbaggers coming down from the North. They committed many violent acts. Questions 1. Define carpetbagger. Describe how carpetbaggers were viewed (a) Southern Whites (b) Southern Blacks Carpetbaggers were northerners who decided to go south and were accused of trying to make a profit from the area’s economic struggles. Southern Whites were divided some were inspired by them the others thought they were evil. Southern