What Was a Scalawag

question 36

Multiple Choice

What was a scalawag?

• A) A homeless unemployed freedman in the South
• B) A native white Southerner who cooperated with the Republicans
• C) A former plantation owner who had lost his lands
• D) A Union soldier who occupied the South during Reconstruction

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Definitions:

Basicity

A measure of an entity’s ability to accept protons, often related to the strength of bases in chemical reactions.

Alkyl Groups

Hydrocarbon groups derived from alkanes by removing one hydrogen atom, often represented generically as R-, and used as substituents in organic chemistry.

Electron Donors

Atoms, molecules, or ions that provide electrons to other atoms, molecules, or ions during chemical reactions, often resulting in the reduction of the latter.

Alkylamine

A compound resulting from the replacement of one or more hydrogen atoms of ammonia (NH3) with alkyl groups.