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Der Begriff scalawag oder auch scallywag war ursprünglich ein Dialektausdruck der amerikanischen Südstaaten für minderwertiges Vieh. Nach der Niederlage der Konföderation im Bürgerkrieg wurden in den Südstaaten weiße Sympathisanten der Republikanischen Partei, also der Partei des siegreichen Präsidenten Abraham Lincoln, als ...
Scalawag. A Sept. 1868 cartoon in Alabama's Independent Monitor, threatening that the Ku Klux Klan (represented by a Democratic donkey, reflecting the status of the Klan at the time as a functional auxiliary of the contemporary Southern Democratic Party) would lynch scalawags (left) and carpetbaggers (right) on March 4, 1869, predicted as the ...
23. Apr. 2024 · Scalawag, after the American Civil War, a pejorative term for a white Southerner who supported the federal plan of Reconstruction or who joined with the black freedmen and the so-called carpetbaggers in support of Republican Party policies. Scalawags constituted perhaps 20 percent of the white electorate.
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1. Dez. 2012 · 1. : scamp, reprobate. 2. : a white Southerner acting in support of the reconstruction governments after the American Civil War often for private gain. Synonyms. baddie. baddy. beast. brute. caitiff. devil. evildoer. fiend. heavy. hound. knave. meanie. meany. miscreant. monster.
SCALAWAG definition: 1. someone, especially a child, who has behaved badly but who is still liked 2. someone, especially…. Learn more.
Vor 5 Tagen · "scalawag" published on by null. A White supporter of the Republican Reconstruction programme in the American South in the early years after the American Civil War. Like the carpetbaggers with whom they associated, the scalawags were a diverse group including some profiteers, but also businessmen, reformers, former Southern Whigs, and poor yeoman farmers who supported the Republican regime.
Definition of scalawag noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
