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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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Professorbecause they were northerners who moved to the south after the war was over. you see the south hated the north so that's they disliked them so much
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What did the southerners call northerners who moved to the south to start buisnesses after the civil war?
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What name did the southerners give to northern republicans who moved to the south during reconstruction?
Carpetbaggers
They were often perceived as profiting from Southerners' misfortune after the Civil 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.
Why do most southerners dislike and distrust scalawags and capetbaggers?
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.
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.
