Definition of Scalawags

Answer 1

• Scalawags - a derogatory term (originally describing worthless livestock) applied to native white Southerners who supported the federal reconstruction plan and cooperated with the blacks in order to achieve their ends. Some of the scalawags were entirely above board, having opposed the Confederacy in earlier times and later wanted a new South to emerge from the rubble. Others cooperated with or served in the Republican governments in order to avail themselves of money-making opportunities.

Answer 2

Scalawags were southerners who cooperated with the civilian and military officials during Reconstruction. They would often take advantage of their fellow southerners through corruption and confiscation of property.

Scalawags were white southerners who joined the Republican Party after the Civil War.

Answer 3

a nick name that the north called the south.