Carpetbaggers

Carpetbaggers

Term applied to Northerners coming to the South to run schools for the freedmen, to reorganise political institutions in the South, or to conduct business. The name was derived from the carpetbags in which they carried their belongings and, according to some, carried off other people's valuables.

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