Some Southern whites saw an advantage in supporting the Republicans and the Reconstruction. They were referred to as scalawags.
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Scalawags were southern whites who supported Reconstruction and the Republican Party after the American Civil War. Samuel F. Phillips was perhaps the most famous scalawag.
In United States history, scalawags were southern whites who supported Reconstruction ... (called carpetbaggers) to take control of their state and local governments. ... In the South, Black Freedmen and White Southerners with Republican.
African Americans remained disenfranchised
the introduction of a tax-supported school system
Carpetbaggers were usually rich, Republican capitalists who travels south during the Reconstruction era after the Civil War in order to invest their money in the new developing industries. Scalawags were Southern whites who supported the Reconstruction of the South.