With the rapid expansion of railroads in the 1840's and 1850's . Ordinary people were traveling in large numbers, and there was an need for cheap luggage ,so thousands of carpetbags were manufactured. They were made by saddle makers in many town and cities and were many sizes and shape. They were called Carpetbags because the makers would buy old carpets and construct the bags from the pieces of carpet that were not completely worn out. This how Carpet bags could be manufactured cheaply , they sold in Dry Goods for $1 to $2.
By the 1860's carpetbags were carried by all most everyone, Men, Women, well to do , middle class and not so well to do. Carpetbags were the first suitcases made in large numbers. When you traveled during the Civil War (1861-1865) and though the 1870, you packed your Carpetbag . This became a way to identify an outsider (traveler).
During the civil war Reconstruction Period (1865-1870) many people for the Northern States went South because it was so poor that there many opportunities for a person with money even a little money. For example you could own a farm by paying the past due taxes for as little as $25. These Opportunities attacked all sorts people from honest hard working farmers, to crooks, charlatans, con artist and of course crooked politicians. All these outsiders (identified by their Carpetbag) were called Carpetbaggers and still are in many places. It became the term to refer to a Yankee who moved to the south. Probably the worst Carpetbaggers were the politicians who used their positions in the corrupt Reconstruction Government to enrich themselves through bribes, graft and other despicable acts at the expense of native Southerners. Today the dictionary defines a Carpetbagger as " an outsider involved in politics".
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Carpetbaggers
The southerners hated carpetbaggers because they were notherners who moved to the south after the Civil War. Southerners hated scalawags because they supported reconstruction in the south after the war.
Carpetbaggers traveled to the south, which was in a depression, and they took advantage of the many available jobs that were created to help the south out of its destruction. The carpetbaggers were named this because they were identified by the bags they carried.
Northerners who moved to the south for profit oppurtunities were called carpetbaggers.
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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
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Carpetbaggers
The Southerners called them Carpetbaggers, because they usually carried Gladstone bags made with carpet material.
They resented northen "carpetbaggers," who took took advantage of the South during Reconstrunction.
Carpetbaggers. The were unpopular because they were exploiting low wages.
albert barnes
The people who were called carpetbaggers were well do northerners who came to the south to buy the ruins of the south. They were called carpetbaggers because they carried a bag made of a heavy cloth that looked like a carpet. The southerners hated them because they were going after the ruined plantations and businesses.
Carpetbaggers (it was a type of soft sided luggage)
Albert Barnes
The southerners hated carpetbaggers because they were notherners who moved to the south after the Civil War. Southerners hated scalawags because they supported reconstruction in the south after the war.