Carpetbaggers.
Carpetbaggers.
carpetbaggers
After the Civil War they were known as carpet-baggers.
The Civil War freed the slaves ended slavery in the US. Many blacks left the South and moved to Northern cities.
Carpetbaggers. Because they moved into the reconstruction of the South, as a opportunity for profit, so quickly all their possessions were in one carpet bag. A form of luggage made of carpet material.
Carpet baggers because they carried a bag made out of material that looked like a carpet.
Carpetbaggers got their name because of the carpet bags they carried with them. It was a name given to a northerner who moved south after the Civil War.
The people who moved to the South during the Reconstruction era to seek economic opportunities were commonly referred to as "carpetbaggers." This term was often used pejoratively to describe Northern transplants who were perceived to be exploiting the region's post-war vulnerabilities for personal gain. Carpetbaggers played various roles in the political and economic rebuilding of the South following the Civil War.
Carpetbaggers were northerners who moved south for personal gain during the Civil War between the Union and the Confederate troops.
the land was cheaper in the south
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