Word: scalawags
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Congress-approved treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo, which ended the Mexican War in 1848 and extended the Mexico-Texas border three leagues into the Gulf.* Florida was also entitled to three leagues because it claimed that boundary in its post-Civil War constitution, rammed through by a carpetbagger and scalawag-packed state constitutional convention and approved by Congress in 1868. Because Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama made considerably less extravagant claims back in the 1860s, they got considerably less from the Supreme Court...