Carpet Baggers And Scalawags

Following the american civil war if someone called you a carpetbagger or scalawag it wasn t meant as a compliment.

Carpet baggers and scalawags.

Scalawags were white southerners who supported the republican party carpetbaggers were recent arrivals in the region from the north and freedmen were freed slaves. However fewer scalawags won nominations to federal offices. Pinkney and theodore ropp pp. Oxford university press 1988.

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. A temporary political vacuum existed in the postwar south. Southern dissenters in the civil war and reconstruction. Confederate military and political leaders were temporarily prohibited from participating in the political process.

48 scalawags were members of the 1867 constitutional convention 49 5 of the republican membership. Louisiana state university press 2003. Artz edited by david h. Carpetbaggers reconsidered in a festschrift for frederick b.

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. 15 were nominated or elected to congress 48 compared to 11 carpetbaggers and 5 blacks.