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Changes in the South       Scalawags ** — applied to native white Southerners who supported the federal reconstruction plan and cooperated with the blacks in order to achieve their ends. Some of the scalawags were entirely above board, having opposed the Confederacy in earlier times and later wanted a new South to emerge from the ground. Others cooperated with or served in the Republican governments in order to make themselves of money-making opportunities Carpetbaggers ** ** — applied to Northerners who went South during Reconstruction, motivated by money. The name referred to the cloth bags many of them used for transporting their possessions. Despite the negativitey of the name, many carpetbaggers were sincerely interested in aiding the freedom and education of the former slaves. ** : **  tenant farmers especially in the southern United States who is provided with credit for seed, tools, living quarters, and food, who works the land, and who receives an agreed share of the value of the crop minus charges.

On Febuary 23, 1870 First black senator elected of Mississippi his name was Hiram Revels. March 30, 1870 the fifteenth amendment passed extended the vote to all male citizens it didn't matter if they were black or white. March 1, 1875 civil rights act led to equal rights for african americans. In 1872 P. B. S. pinchback was elected the govenor of Louisina from December 9, 1872 to January 13, 1873. He was the first black to serve as a state govenor. 42nd congress had five black members of House of Representatives. They were Benjamin S. Turner, Josiah T. Walls, Robert Brown Elliot, Joseph H. Rainey, and Robert carlos DeLarge.

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