They were called "carpetbaggers", which referred to the soft fabric luggage they carried, which was then in style in the North.
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Carpetbaggers
The North and South should take equal responsibility for causing the Civil War
Radical Republicans
Scalawags were southern Unionists or Republicans under Reconstruction, and "carpetbaggers" (named for their soft-sided luggage) were Northerners who helped with the change of governments and businesses after the Civil War.
Reconstruction had absolutely nothing to do with rebuilding Southern infrastructure that was destroyed primarily by the North. Reconstruction and the goal of the radical republicans was to re-build the political male-up of the South to "look like" the north.