In 1868 the term 'Scalawag' was used to refer to white southerners who supported the Reconstruction and the Republican party after the Civil War. The word 'scalawag' originally referred to low grade farm animals.
Scalawags :)
bob is cool
There was no such thing as an "Iron Curtain" (a curtain made of iron). The name was simply a symbolic term representing communist countries, with the USSR primarily being the center focus. Consequently, the term "behind the iron curtain" meant being in a communist nation (primarily meaning the USSR).
The South was the Confederacy - the eleven states that had seceded from the USA. The North meant all the other states, and these included four states of the Upper South that had remained loyal. But their loyalty was often uncertain (a major worry to Lincoln), and all of them recruited some regiments of Confederates.
Scalawags were white Southerners who supported Reconstruction policies and efforts after the conclusion of the American Civil War.
"Scalawag" was a term used in the American South after the Civil War to describe white Southern individuals who were perceived as traitors to the Southern cause. They were often seen as supporting Reconstruction policies and the integration of the newly freed African Americans into society. The term was used pejoratively to criticize those who were viewed as disloyal to the traditional Southern way of life.
Scalawags were white Southerners who supported Reconstruction policies and efforts after the conclusion of the American Civil War.
A scalawag was a term used during the Reconstruction era in the United States to describe Southern whites who supported the Republican Party and its policies of promoting civil rights and rebuilding the South after the Civil War. They were often seen as traitors by other Southerners who opposed Reconstruction.
Get Back here, You SCAlAWAG!
A scalawag is a person who behaves badly or dishonestly.
Did you know that Scalawags was a name for Southern Whites who supported reconstruction after the Civil War. As a derogatory term it refers to a rascal or a worthless fellow. So if you want to be constructively critical of someone, although you should not be, a sentence can be short and sweet ' I think you are a scalawag'
A scalawag is a white Southerner who works for or supports the fedaral government during reconstruction; and a carpetbagger is a Northerner who wnt South after the Civil War for political or financial reason.
I like the term rascal for an older person but for a kid an imp.
The cast of The Scalawag - 1912 includes: Jack Conway as Lem - the Scalawag
A southerner who supported Republican reconstruction of the South was often called a scalawag.
The term "Carpet Bagger" was derived from the Northerners who came into the South after the Civil War during the Reconstruction era, believed to have come to the South for private profits. While "scalawag" was a negative term used against White Southerners by other White Southerners, stating they are in support of Reconstruction for private gain.