Portrait of America: From Reconstruction to the presentHoughton Mifflin, 1978 |
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... Carpetbaggers and roguish Scalawags who " stole the South blind . " According to this view , still popular among many Americans today , Reconstruction was a " blackout of honest government , " a time when the " Southern people were ...
... Carpetbaggers and roguish Scalawags who " stole the South blind . " According to this view , still popular among many Americans today , Reconstruction was a " blackout of honest government , " a time when the " Southern people were ...
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... carpetbaggers , crafty adventurers who invaded the postwar South for political and economic plunder , were the most notorious . The scala- wags , who assisted the carpetbaggers , were mostly degraded and depraved poor whites , betrayers ...
... carpetbaggers , crafty adventurers who invaded the postwar South for political and economic plunder , were the most notorious . The scala- wags , who assisted the carpetbaggers , were mostly degraded and depraved poor whites , betrayers ...
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... carpetbaggers were some who fitted the stereotype : disreputable opportunists and corruptionists who went south in search of political plunder or public office . Because these carpetbaggers were so conspicuous and gained such notoriety ...
... carpetbaggers were some who fitted the stereotype : disreputable opportunists and corruptionists who went south in search of political plunder or public office . Because these carpetbaggers were so conspicuous and gained such notoriety ...
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Thunder in D Alexander Brown | 42 |
the West 5 Day of the Cattleman | 50 |
馨 7 The New Industrial Order | 84 |
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