1. Scalawag or Carpet Bagger?
Southerners who supported the Democratic Party
Bought land from poor southerners at low prices, divided it up and sold it off again.
Northern merchants who flocked to the south and opened stores that charged prices for goods
Made fun of because of their cheap luggage
Many new comers to the south grew rich, thus angering the old southerners
Worthless scoundrels
Northerners who went to the south after the Civil War to gain money and political power
White southerners who supported the federal government after the Civil War