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Carpet baggers because they carried a bag made out of material that looked like a carpet.

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What is the name that was given to Northern whites who moved South after the Civil War?

Carpetbaggers.


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Northern people who moved to the south after the civil war were called...?

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They were called "Carpetbaggers" and, "Scalawags".


Freedom Riders?

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copperheads?

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