This article provides facts and information about the carpetbaggers during the reconstruction era following the civil war.
Civil war carpetbaggers.
The term carpetbagger was used by opponents of reconstruction the period.
During and immediately after the civil war many northerners headed to the southern states driven by hopes of economic gain a.
After the civil war the term referred to one thing only.
In the history of the united states carpetbagger was a derogatory term applied by former confederates to any person from the northern united states who came to the southern states after the american civil war.
Following the american civil war if someone called you a carpetbagger or scalawag it wasn t meant as a compliment.
Carpetbaggers are known as the men and sometimes women who crossed the border from the north into the south.
That is what both sides of the war felt and said about the people who left the north for the south to glean their share.
Republican rule in the south.