A Carpet Bagger Was A

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A carpet bagger was a.

Carpetbagger derogatory term originally used in the u s. They were called carpetbaggers to imply that they were such poor transient characters that they merely moved south carrying all their possessions in a carpet bag. An outsider especially a politician who. The term is now used in the united states to refer to a parachute candidate that is an outsider who runs.

Carpetbagger definition is a northerner in the south after the american civil war usually seeking private gain under the reconstruction governments. In general the term carpetbagger refers to a traveler who arrives in a new region with only a satchel or carpetbag of possessions and who attempts to profit from or gain. In the post us civil war south carpetbaggers were northerners who moved to the south to take advantage of the unstable social financial and political climate. A northerner who went to the south after the civil war for political or financial advantage.

It was applied to politicians and financial adventurers whom southerners accused of coming south to use the newly enfranchised freedmen to obtain office or profit. During the reconstruction period 1865 77 to denote a northerner who moved to the south.