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Who were known as "carpetbaggers" and "scalawags"?
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Who were known as "carpetbaggers" and "scalawags"?

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"Carpetbaggers" is referring to northerners who moved to the south after the civil war. And "Scalawags" is referring to white southerners who cooperated politically with black freedmen and northern new comers.
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