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What group does this describe They were often perceived as profiting from Southerners' misfortune after the Civil War?
Carpetbaggers
How did the southerners feel about the future of slavery in the US?
The Southerners did not feel good about the future of slavery
What is a term used by conservative white southerners to describe northern whites who migrated to the south?
Carpetbaggers (it was a type of soft sided luggage)
How did scalawags change government in the south?
scakawags changed the government in the south by bringing the republican ideas to the politics of south white southerners were referred a scalawags by their enemies carpetbaggers won in most of the cases and that led to scalawags moving towards
Were all carpetbaggers bad?
Southerners hated carpetbaggers for one main reason: they profited from their misfortune. While the south was struggling with reconstruction, the carpetbaggers were milking the bad situation at the south's expense... Current challenges this notion by proclaiming that, because of reconstruction, the South was new and open land to explore for northerners who before were so opposed to slavery as to ever set foot in southern territory. The fact that they were making a quick buck... well they also have families to feed! If they make a living off of selling property from a "nation" which was currently under construction, then so be it. The southerners were simply pissy because they lost and slavery is abolished. As they continually see "carpetbaggers" and "scallawags" making a living off of what they feel is rightfully theirs, they are bound to be miffed.
