Question

Who were known as "carpetbaggers" and "scalawags"? Northern confederates who tried to take over Southern lands and businesses after the war Northerners who tried to make money off the dire situation in the South and Southerners who did the same Southern ruffians, usually retired from the Confederate Army, who wrought havoc in political meetings violent Southerners who terrorized blacks to keep them uneducated, poor, and out of politics

Answer 1

The "carpetbaggers" and "scalawags" were "Northerners who tried to make money off the dire situation in the South" since many would come down and capitalize on setting up new schools, etc.

Answer 2

The correct answer is: "Northerners who tried to make money off the dire situation in the South and Southerners who did the same".

Carpetbagger is a pejorative term that was used by former Confederates in the US Southern states, after the US Civil war, to refer to population from Northern states who had moved to the South.

On the other hand, scalawag was also a pejorative form of denominating  Southerners who joined the power structures imposed from the Union forces that had won the war.