Question

1. who were the scalawags?○ they were wealthy white southern women who participated in politics.○ they were northerners who relocated to the south after the war.○ they were white southerners who had been excluded from politics before the war.○ they were african americans in the south who became republicans.

Explanation:

Scalawags were white Southerners who aligned with the Republican Party during the Reconstruction era in the U.S. They were typically non-elite white Southerners who had been marginalized or excluded from pre-Civil War Southern political power structures, and they supported Reconstruction policies.

Answer:

They were white southerners who had been excluded from politics before the war.