B. John Smith was the first
The secret police attempted to identify citizens who opposed the Communist Party and who could undermine it.
Early in the twentieth century rapid economic and technological change increasing competition among powerful states.
African Americans, carpetbaggers and scalawags comprised the Republican Party's largest Southern constituency during Reconstruction. The Scalawags were the white Southerners who backed the Reconstruction policies and were usually Union loyalists during the Civil War. Carpetbaggers were the Northerners who moved to the South during the Reconstruction era mostly for economic and political gains.
