What was one of the main political goals of both carpetbaggers and scalawags?

Question

a) To restore the Confederacy
b) To support the Democratic Party in the South
c) To promote civil rights and rebuild the South's economy
d) To resist the abolition of slavery

Answer 1

c) To promote civil rights and rebuild the South's economy

Carpetbaggers (Northern transplants) and scalawags (Southern whites who collaborated with Reconstruction efforts) both aimed to promote civil rights for freedmen and to help rebuild the South's economy after the Civil War.