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What are carpetbaggers?

April 26, 2017carpetbaggers

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What are carpetbaggers?

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Carpetbaggers is a term used by Southerners to identify Northerners that had come to the South after the Civil War to exploit the opportunities the 1865-1870 reconstruction period offered. Carpetbagger was coined because the bags these people carried were usually made from old carpeting.