carpetbaggers

     

In Unite States history, carpetbaggers was the term southerners gave to northerners who moved to the South during Reconstruction, between 1865 and 1877. They formed a coalition with freedmen (freed slaves), and scalawags (southern whites who supported Reconstruction) in the Republican Party. Together they politically controlled former Confederate states for varying periods, 1867–1877.

Trivia about carpetbaggers

  • This term was coined to refer to Northern whites who went South seeking opportunities
  • Type of traveling bag that gave its name to Northern profiteers during Reconstruction

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