Question 15(Multiple Choice Worth 5 points) (MC)Which statement best describes the main political goal of the scalawags? They wanted to ensure that the Democratic Party returned to power in the South. They wanted to rebuild Southern states in cooperation with Republican reformers. They wanted to renew the struggle for states' rights even after the Civil War was over. They wanted to prevent African Americans in the South from exercising their voting rights.

The answer is B. They wanted to rebuild Southern states in cooperation with Republican reformers.

Explanation:

After the end of the Civil War, the Reconstruction period began, this period involved important changes in the Southern states such as policies to guarantee civil rights and equality. These policies proposed mainly by the Republican Party. Additionally, one of the groups that supported the reconstruction in alliance with Republicans was the scalawags or white southerners who believed in equality and civil rights. Additionally, due to their position about reconstruction scalawags were widely attacked by supremacists groups such as the Ku Klux Klan because they "betrayed" southern values and Democratic ideas of the time. Thus, scalawags "wanted to rebuild Southern states in cooperation with Republican reformers".

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