About 1/5 of all northerners
northerners who came to the south after the civil war
Carpet baggers
Northerners opposed Missouri's entrance as a slave state because slave states would have more senators in Congress than the free states would. It would give the South a bigger voting presence in Congress. This issue was the basic cause of the Civil War.
Carpetbaggers were American Northerners who moved South in the time after the Civil War to start businesses and political careers
the north had 2 million troops and the south had 800,000 troops
Northerners who were sympathetic to the South during the American Civil War were sometimes called "Copperheads" or "Peace Democrats." They opposed the war and supported a negotiated peace settlement with the Confederacy.
northerners who came to the south after the civil war
Many Northerners went to the South after the Civil War to buy land, because it was very inexpensive. They were known as Carpetbaggers.
Carpetbaggers
Northerners who moved to the south for profit oppurtunities were called carpetbaggers.
traitors.
carpetbaggers
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