Scalawags were white Southerners who supported Reconstruction policies and efforts after the conclusion of the American Civil War.
Chat with our AI personalities
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.