because all of the work was in a family's cottage home
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a cottage industry is were you and or family members work from home to produce things and a factory many other people work in a building.
Cottage industry was a system of manufacturing which was very common before the Industrial Revolution in the early 19th century. In this system of production, goods would be made in the homes of the workers rather than in a factory setting.
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Scalawags is the term used to refer to white Southerners who favored the Reconstruction instead of the south. The derogatory term later became more of a political name.
Caucasian would be the proper term.