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A Sept. 1868 cartoon in Alabama's Independent Monitor, threatening that the Ku Klux Klan (represented by a Democratic donkey, reflecting the status of the Klan at the time as a functional auxiliary of the contemporary Southern Democratic Party) would lynch scalawags (left) and carpetbaggers (right) on March 4, 1869, predicted as the first day of Democrat Horatio Seymour's presidency (the ...
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Josiah Dunlow - 1st North Carolina Union Volunteers. The term Southern Unionist, and its variations, incorporate a spectrum of beliefs and actions.Some, such as Texas governor Sam Houston, were vocal in their support of Southern interests, but believed that those interests could best be maintained by remaining in the Union as it existed.
1872 cartoon depiction of Carl Schurz as a carpetbagger. In the history of the United States, carpetbagger is a largely historical pejorative used by Southerners to describe allegedly opportunistic or disruptive Northerners who came to the Southern states after the American Civil War and were perceived to be exploiting the local populace for their own financial, political, or social gain.
The Reconstruction era in the state of South Carolina after the American Civil War featured involvement of both scalawags and newly freed African American slaves. Land ownership was seen as an important aspect of freedom for African-Americans in South Carolina and the South Carolina Land Commission was created during the 1868 South Carolina Constitutional Convention. [1]
In 2006, Donna Schwartzbauer spent $15,000 on what she thought was a nice plot of land in Ross Township, Pennsylvania, just outside of Pittsburgh.She decided to build a house on it and make it her ...
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Garage sale in northern California Diverse items bought at a moving sale held in Boise, Idaho. A garage sale (also known as a yard sale, tag sale, moving sale and by many other names [1]) is an informal event for the sale of used goods by private individuals, in which sellers are not required to obtain business licenses or collect sales tax (though, in some jurisdictions, a permit may be ...