who were the scalawags and carpetbaggers
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Scalawags and Carpetbaggers Scalawags and Carpetbaggers. Scalawags and Carpetbaggers were derogatory terms used in the aftermath of the Civil War. Scalawags referred to a group of white Republican Southerners who sympathized with the federal Reconstruction effort.
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Carpetbagger Carpetbagger was used by Southerners as a pejorative term, referring to the carpet bags (a form of cheap luggage made from carpet fabric) which many of these newcomers carried. The term came to be associated with opportunism and exploitation by outsiders.
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Thuggee Thuggee or tuggee (Hindi: Nepali ठग्गी ṭhaggī; Urdu: ٹھگ‎; Sanskrit: sthaga; Sindhi: ٺوڳي، ٺڳ‎; Kannada: ಠಕ್ಕ thakka) were the acts of Thugs, an organised gang of professional robbers and murderers. Thugs travelled in groups across the Indian sub-continent for six hundred years.
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Stanley Holloway In its obituary of Holloway, The Times wrote that Sam and Albert became part of English folklore during the 1930s, and they remained so during the Second World War. These monologues employed the Holloway style that has been called the understated look-on-the-bright-side world of the cockney working class. ...
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How the GarcÃa Girls Lost Their Accents How the García Girls Lost Their Accents. Uprooted from their family home in the Dominican Republic, the four Garcia sisters - Carla, Sandra, Yolanda, and Sofia - arrive in New York City in 1960 to find a life far different from the genteel existence of maids, manicures, and extended family they left behind.
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Square Grouper: The Godfathers of Ganja Square Grouper: The Godfathers of Ganja is a colorful portrait of Miami's pot smuggling scene of the 1970s, populated with redneck pirates, a ganja-smoking church, and the longest serving marijuana prisoner in American history.
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- Critics referred derisively to these southerners as “scalawags.”. 1  Play video Legacy of the Civil War. 2  Play video The Failure of Reconstruction. 3  Play video The Civil War and Its Legacy.
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Joe Aiello Giuseppe Joe Aiello (1891, Bagheria – October 23, 1930) was a Chicago bootlegger during the... Giuseppe Joe Aiello (1891, Bagheria – October 23, 1930) was a Chicago bootlegger during the 1920s and early 1930s who had a longstanding, bloody feud with Chicago Outfit boss Al Capone. Born in...
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Redeemers The Promise of the New South: Life after Reconstruction (1993). online edition; Baggett, James Alex. The Scalawags: Southern Dissenters in the Civil War and Reconstruction (2003), a statistical study of 732 Scalawags and 666 Redeemers. Blum Edward J. and W. Scott Poole, eds. Vale of Tears: New Essays on Religion and Reconstruction.
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carpetbagger also carpet-bagger, 1868, American English, scornful appellation for Northerners who went South after the fall of the CSA seeking private gain or political advancement. The name is based on the image of men arriving with all their worldly goods in a big carpetbag.
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- Comedy about two women who live together in a rather large house. Dolores, who is the black one, has two boys Marcus (Santana) and Darren (Richmond). Cathy, who is the white one, has two ...
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Another Period: Natasha Leggero, Riki Lindhome on the season finale Another Period: Natasha Leggero, Riki Lindhome on the season finale. Every week, Another Period creators and stars Natasha Leggero and Riki Lindhome, who play spoiled socialite sisters Lillian and Beatrice Bellacourt, take viewers behind the scenes and share insight into how they crafted each episode. Below, their thoughts on the finale of the comedy’s second season, “Lillian’s Dead.”.
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Guerillas, Jayhawkers, Bushwackers From Elmo Ingenthron Manuscript Among other guerillas, bushwackers, or jayhawkers as their enemies might choose to call them, who operated in the area were: Rebel Calvin Dunnaway, Union Capt. Cockran, Rebel James Ingraham, Union Martin D. Hart, Rebel Col. Sidney D. Jackman, and Rebel Captain Railey.
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Scalawag In American history, a Scalawag was a Southern white who joined the Republican party during Reconstruction, 1863-1877. They formed a coalition with Freedmen (blacks who were former slaves) and Northern newcomers (called Carpetbaggers) to take control of their state and local governments at various times, 1867-1877.
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Inartful Long ago in a social-cultural community that no longer exists — Georgetown in Washington, circa 1971 — dowager queens like Polly Wisner would hold small, elegant dinners with government officials and mover-shaker pundits who combined profound disagreements on policy with a civility that sometimes led to friendship.
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Kandake The following African queens were known to the Greco-Roman world as the Candaces: Amanishakhete, Amanitore, Amanirenas, Nawidemak, and Malegereabar. Kandakes of Kush Pelekh Candace of Meroe (c. 345 BCE–332 BCE)
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- The winged aerialiste Fevvers and the rag-bag of circus freaks with whom she journeys evoke the Rabelaisian carnivalesque that Bakhtin cites as a powerful challenge to the spatial, temporal, and linguistic fixities of the medieval world.
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Hoodlum  (film) Hoodlum (film) Hoodlum is a 1997 American crime drama film that gives a fictionalized account of the gang war between the Italian/Jewish mafia alliance and the Black gangsters of Harlem that took place in the late 1920s and early 1930s. The film concentrated on Ellsworth Bumpy Johnson (Laurence Fishburne), Dutch Schultz , and Lucky Luciano (Andy García).
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Lesson 1. Upton Sinclair, Theodore Roosevelt, and Harvey W. Wiley The story of how two progressives, Theodore Roosevelt and Harvey W. Wiley, worked together within the federal government is not as well-known as the role played by Sinclair’s The Jungle, but it provides the needed historical and political context for the landmark Progressive era legislation.
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Who were scalawags and who were carpetbaggers? Scalawags — a derogatory term (originally describing worthless livestock) applied to native white Southerners who supported the federal reconstruction plan and cooperated with the blacks in order to achieve their ends.
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Tom, Bert, and William —The Stone-trolls and Bilbo Baggins. Tom, Bert, and William (Bill) Huggins were three Stone trolls that Bilbo Baggins encountered in the Trollshaws, in Eriador, while with Thorin and Company on their quest to regain the Lonely Mountain (Erebor).
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SCALAWAG A white Southerner who supported Reconstruction policies after the American Civil War (usually for self-interest) Classified under: Nouns denoting people. Synonyms: scalawag; scallywag. Hypernyms (scalawag is a kind of...): bad person (a person who does harm to others)
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- Also known as MWPP, this fantastic foursome was the greatest trickster-troublemaker clan in the history of Hogwarts (although as Hagrid quite aptly pointed out, the Weasley twins probably could have given them a run for their money) until James met his untimely demise on Halloween of 1981.
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Brigandage In France there were the Écorcheurs, écorcheurs Or, skinners in the 15th, century and The chauffeurs around the time of the. Revolution the first were large bands of discharged mercenary soldiers who pillaged the. Country the second were ruffians who forced their victims to pay ransom by holding their feet in. fires
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Carpetbagger In United States history, carpetbaggers were Northerners who moved to the South during Reconstruction to take up new business, reform or political opportunities. More generally the term refers to the political faction of the Republican Party in the South controlled by the new arrivals.