Carpetbaggers were Northerners who came seeking to improve their economic or political life, or help the AA life in the South. The Characteristic they all shared wasthat they all carried carpet-cloth suitcases. What did the term carpetbagger mean? The term carpetbagger was used by opponents of R...
The Confederacy: 'The Confederacy' is a shortened version of the 'Confederate States of America.' This was the name taken by the group of states that seceded from the United States in the 19th Century, leading to the American Civil War. ...
What was the Estates General? The People's Assembly: Prior to the French Revolution, French monarchs fully believed in their absolute right to rule absolutely. This idea was called the 'divine right of kings', the belief that a king's reign was ordained by God and no earthly power could ...
What are carpetbaggers and scalawags? In what two ways was Atlanta important to the Confederacy? What union participated in the Homestead Strike? What did the Whig and Democratic parties have in common? What caused economic problems for the Confederacy?
President Lincoln had a plan to rebuild the South and reunite the country, but he was assassinated before he could put his plan into action. Andrew Johnson became president after Lincoln. Because he was from the South, he wanted to make things easier for those that lost the war. Johnson ...
The carpetbaggers, scalawags, and negroes outnumbered the Democrats, yet in the three campaigns in which they put out tickets, in 1866, 1871, and 1872, they never carried an election. The principle for which the Democrats stood was white supremacy…. The Republican ticket contained a very ...
The tremendous amount of strife and uncertainty they have experienced should be treated with empathy, patience, and care.“Afghans have always welcomed me into their homes and treated me with such care and kindness every time I was in the country for research.”– Jennifer L. Fluri...
PresentsandThe Twilight Zone, and as a result, was offered the supporting role of Detective Milton Arbogast inPsycho (1960). After Psycho, he played strong parts in films likeBreakfast at Tiffany’s (1961), Cape Fear (1962), andThe Carpetbaggers (1964). In 1965, he won an Academy Award...
conservative’ nature of the New Right were needed; for the Left the problem related to the kind of strategy to adopt in tackling it. This was particularly true of Britain, partly because `Thatcherism’ appeared to be the most intense manifestation of New Right politics and partly because of ...
Revisionist historians were already depicting Reconstruction as a fatal example of government overreach and Northern “carpetbaggers” and “scalawags” coming South to profit off of the regions’ misery, said Dray, author of “Capitol Men.” “When some of them passed away years later, the ...