History A-Level
Southern Unionists
What Southern Unionists means in History A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Southern Unionists
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Native white Southerners, often derisively termed 'scalawags', who collaborated with Republicans to build new state governments and faced severe backlash.
Topics that use Southern Unionists
- 2J America: A Nation Divided, c1845–1877 – Radical Reconstruction, 1867–1877 (A-level only) (AQA A-Level)
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