Most of Those Termed "Scalawags" During Reconstruction Had Been

question 52

Multiple Choice

Most of those termed "scalawags" during Reconstruction had been

• A) owners of large southern plantations before the Civil War.
• B) non-slaveholding white farmers from the southern upcountry prior to the Civil War.
• C) enslaved African-Americans before emancipation.
• D) Union soldiers during the war, but then they decided to stay in the South.
• E) Confederate officers and Confederate government officials during the Civil War.

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