During Reconstruction,the term "scalawags" referred to
A) Southern white Republicans.
B) free black Southerners.
C) Southerners who moved north.
D) white Southerners who still embraced their former affiliation with the Confederacy.
E) Northerners who moved south.

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The term "scalawags" referred to Southern white Republicans during Reconstruction. These were white Southerners who supported Reconstruction and the Republican Party, often seen as betraying their fellow Southerners who still held Confederate sympathies.

During Reconstruction,the Term "Scalawags" Referred to