Who were known as "carpetbaggers" and "scalawags"?
a. northern confederates who tried to take over southern lands and businesses after the war
b. northerners who tried to make money off the dire situation in the south and southerners who did the same
c. southern ruffians, usually retired from the confederate army, who wrought havoc in political meetings
d. violent southerners who terrorized blacks to keep them uneducated, poor, and out of politics

- "the past is made of multitudinous items ranging from anything that can be collected, recollected or assessed to originate in the past. as such, the past is a gallimaufry of particulars that may not have been related in any way. however, the human mind seeks organization to understand concepts and other things. the human mind therefore seeks relationships in explaining and studying the past. history being a humanity, dictates that historians have to serve this human trait by bringing structure to details of the past. historians do this by creating interpretive frameworks that capture as many details as possible."

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i believe the answer is c