Southern whites who supported Reconstruction and worked with the Republican Party were known as?

• A. Exposition
• B. Readmission
• C. Scalawags
• D. Military Districts

Answer: (C)

Scalawags are Southern whites who supported Reconstruction and worked with the Republican Party to rebuild the South and implement reforms for newly freed people. They believed federal intervention and reforms were needed to modernize the region, even if it meant aligning with Northern Republicans and African Americans in government. The label carried a negative connotation from opponents who saw them as betraying the Southern cause. The other terms refer to different things: Exposition isn’t a group of people, Readmission is about a state's return to the Union, and Military Districts were the administrative zones set up to govern the South during Reconstruction.