Carpetbaggers.
Cheap land - and cheap wages. It made them look like mean and unpleasant people.
traitors.
Caperbagger
Northerners who moved to the south for profit oppurtunities were called carpetbaggers.
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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 was the term often used to describe such people.
About 1/5 of all northerners
Carpetbaggers
carpetbaggers
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