Question

What is the difference between a scalawag and a copperhead?

Answer 1

Copperheads are a democratic party from the north. they wanted to end the civil war peacefully and with negotiations. There name come from the republicans. they supported the union. they didnt like violence. Scalawags are whites from south. they supported the republican party. They supported the union.

Answer 2

Scalawags were white Southerners who worked with northern Republicans that advocated for Reconstruction, typically, so that they could earn more profit or restore profit that they had lost due to the Civil War, whereas Copperheads were northern Democrats that didn't want the war at all and wanted to negotiate some sort of peace agreement or treaty with the South just out of dislike of the war.