Question

Who were known as "carpetbaggers" and "scalawags"?
a. Northern confederates who tried to take over Southern lands and businesses after the war
b. Northerners who tried to make money off the dire situation in the South and Southerners who did the same
c. Southern ruffians, usually retired from the Confederate Army, who wrought havoc in political meetings
d. violent Southerners who terrorized blacks to keep them uneducated, poor, and out of politics

Answer 1

I'm gonna go with B, because according to the definition of carpetbagger, it means: A person from the northern states who went to the South after the Civil War to profit from the Reconstruction.

Answer 2

Answer:

Option: b. Northerners who tried to make money off the dire situation in the South and Southerners who did the same.

Explanation:

After the Civil War in America, the South remained in destruction. For building up the South, Reconstruction was proposed by the North to build the South prosperous in terms of economic as well as in society. Some of the white people from the North came to make fortune in the South in Reconstruction Era were called by the Southerns as Carpetbaggers. The southern people, who along with the Carpetbaggers tried to make fortune called scalawags.