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10. **// Who were the carpetbaggers and scalawags and how did they participate in the Reconstruction? //** A large number of Northerners traveled to the South during the Reconstruction. Southerners called them carpetbaggers because they brought their belongings in suitcases made of carpet fabric. Scalawags were what some Southerners called the others who supported the Republicans and Reconstruction. Scalawags is an old Scots-Irish term for weak, underfed, worthless animals.

11. **//How did African Americans take part in Southern politics?//** The served as legislators and administrators for nearly all levels of government. Many served as delegates to the conventions that created new state constitutions

12. **// What reforms did the Republicans make to the South? //** They repealed the black codes, established state hospitals and institutions for orphans, built roads, railways, and bridges, provided funds for the construction of new railroads and industries in the South.