CLEP US History II

Answer: D - Scalawags were white Southern Republicans who favored Reconstruction and helped enact its reforms in their home states. They were despised by their neighbors, who viewed them as traitors. Scalawags were often viewed as being akin to carpetbaggers, who were Northern Republicans who moved to the South during Reconstruction to direct the course of the new state governments or capitalize financially on the region’s troubled state following the war.