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17. Most of those termed "scalawags" during Reconstruction had been: a. owners of large southern plantations before the Civil War. b. non-slaveholding white farmers from the southern upcountry prior to the Civil War. c. enslaved African-Americans before emancipation. d. Union soldiers during the war, but then they decided to stay in the South. e. Confederate officers and Confederate government officials during the Civil War.
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