The Harlem Renaissance literature explored the pains and joys of being black in America. This took place in the middle of the 1930's and right after World War 1.
The British were taxing the tea and being violent towards the colonists so the colonist got mad and dressed as Indians and threw all the tea in the harbor
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.