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Ephraim Armstrong
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∙ 9y agoScalawags were people that already lived in the southern states. These were people living in the south that supported the Reconstruction efforts and the Republican Party following the Civil War.
Darayvon McCoy
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∙ 13y agoScalawags were southerners who helped with reconstruction and often took away land and houses that the other southerners could afford to keep. They worked with the government for their own gain and they were very disliked.
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Northerners who came to the south after the civil war were known as?
Northerners who moved to the south for profit oppurtunities were called carpetbaggers.
What did the southerners call northerners who moved to the south to start buisnesses after the civil war?
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Who were Northerners who came to the South after the Civil War?
They were called carpetbaggers, because they put their possessions in suitcases made from what looked like carpets. In reality, they didn't go to look for political and economic opportunities, but to exploit the South. The effects of the carpetbaggers can be seen today in the lower wage scales typical of the South.
What group formed the backbone of the Republican Party in the South during Reconstruction?
the carpetbaggers
Why were northerners called carpetbaggers?
After the Civil War, the north had control of the south. To ascertain this control, the north brought their own carpets with them because the south had wood floors, no carpet. They would wrap their furniture and belongings in their carpet to move. Hence the name "carpetbaggers."
Why did some carpetbaggers come from the south?
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Northerners who came to the south after the civil war were known as?
Northerners who moved to the south for profit oppurtunities were called carpetbaggers.
Who criticized the carpetbaggers?
The Southerners criticized the carpetbaggers. Why? well because the carpetbaggers were renovating the South as if they were bringing parts of the North in order to develop South as the North
Northerners who moved to the South during Reconstruction were called?
carpetbaggers
Northern people who moved to the south after the civil war were called...?
carpetbaggers
Why did the carpetbaggers come to the south?
apex: all of the above! to buy land -to enter politics -to help freedmen
What did the southerners call northerners who moved to the south to start buisnesses after the civil war?
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Who were the Carpetbaggers?
northerners who came to the south after the civil war
Who were northern republicans that moved south?
Carpetbaggers this is the right answer the person above me was right
Northerners who supported the republicans and moved south during reconstruction was called?
carpetbaggers
Why did some carpetbaggers some to the south?
apex: all of the above! to buy land -to enter politics -to help freedmen
Who were Northerners who came to the South after the Civil War?
They were called carpetbaggers, because they put their possessions in suitcases made from what looked like carpets. In reality, they didn't go to look for political and economic opportunities, but to exploit the South. The effects of the carpetbaggers can be seen today in the lower wage scales typical of the South.
