The people who were called carpetbaggers were well do northerners who came to the south to buy the ruins of the south. They were called carpetbaggers because they carried a bag made of a heavy cloth that looked like a carpet. The southerners hated them because they were going after the ruined plantations and businesses.
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It was a devastated zone, with low prices and low wages, exploited by Northern 'Carpetbaggers'.
They were called "Carpetbaggers" and, "Scalawags".
Northerners who moved to the south for profit oppurtunities were called carpetbaggers.
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northerners who came to the south after the civil war
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