Which of these would have been most likely to have been a scalawag during the reconstruction era?

a) a new york businessman who relocated to mississippi
b) a native georgian who supported the republican party
c) a former slave who was able to buy land in birmingham
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d) a former confederate officer who owned a farm in memphis

The right answer is B) A native Georgian who supported the Republican party.

B) a native Georgian who supported the Republican Party

Explanation:

When the civil war ended with the defeat of the South, Georgia was occupied by Union forces and in those times of Reconstruction, the Republican Party was intensely hated by almost all of the whites of the South.

The Carpetbaggers, northern whites who had moved south to become rich in politics as members of the Republican Party, and the Scalawags, southern whites who had joined the Republican Party, were the embodiment of corruption and abuse of power that hated southerners.

these are the choices

local priests

european monarchs

common people

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