Sentence example with the word 'scalawags'

scalawags

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During the Reconstruction the people of the South were divided thus: nearly all native whites (the most prominent of whom were disfranchised) on one side irrespective of former political faith, and on the other side the ex-slaves organized and led by a few native and Northern whites called respectively scalawags and carpet-baggers, who were supported by the United States government and who controlled the Southern state governments.   [Please select]

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These men had led in the contest against the scalawags and the carpetbaggers and many had suffered thereby.   [Please select]

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Louis, session of National Alliance at (1889), 34; tobacco industry, 103 Scalawags, Confederate soldiers against, 12 Scotch-Irish in South, 6; and Presbyterianism, 215 Scott, W.   [Please select]

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An exception, however, was made in favor of the scalawags who had supported reconstruction and whose disabilities had been removed by Congress.   [Please select]

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The scalawags, also, developed a dislike of the Northern church work among the Negroes, and it was impossible to organize mixed congregations.   [Please select]

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There were a few thousand carpetbaggers in each State, with, at first, a much larger number of scalawags.   [Please select]

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Deprived of the leadership of the best whites, they could not possibly act with the scalawags--their traditional enemies.   [Please select]

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Such pacific methods were successful to a considerable degree until the carpetbaggers and scalawags were placed in office under the Reconstruction Acts.   [Please select]

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The few Southern whites who befriended the negroes were called "scalawags" by their white neighbors.   [Please select]

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In this they were aided by a few Southerners who supported the negro cause and were called "scalawags."   [Please select]

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Only on the scattered hill farms women and boys and old men were working in the fields, all save the scalawags having gone to join Rutherford.   [Please select]

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