Question

Why did scalawags, carpetbaggers, and African Americans support the Radicals?

Answer 1

Carpet baggers - people from the North & South supported Radical Republicans.
Scalawags - Southern whites who supported reconstruction.
Freedman - freed slaves who voted to support Republican ideas which created whole new conditions in the south.

Answer 2

The correct answer is the scalawags, carpetbaggers and African Americans supported the Radicals because they wanted to reconstrut the country after its Civil War.

Step-by-step explanation:

The Radical Republicans were always progressive and did not agree with slavery that is why when the reconstruction was being denied they went to freed slaves for support.