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What name was given to Southerners who allied with carpetbaggers to take advantage of the political situation in the South during the Reconstruction?
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What name was given to Southerners who allied with carpetbaggers to take advantage of the political situation in the South during the Reconstruction?

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Scalawag.

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Scalawags were white Southerners who cooperated politically with black freedmen and Northern newcomers.

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They were called Scalawag
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