A Carpet Bagger Was A

During the reconstruction period 1865 77 to denote a northerner who moved to the south.

A carpet bagger was a.

The term carpetbagger used exclusively as a pejorative term originated from the carpet bags a form of cheap luggage made from carpet fabric which many of these newcomers carried. Carpetbagger synonyms carpetbagger pronunciation carpetbagger translation english dictionary definition of carpetbagger. 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. An outsider especially a politician who.

A carpet bag by the way isn t a bag for carrying carpet but a. The term came to be associated with opportunism and exploitation by outsiders. 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. Carpetbagger derogatory term originally used in the u s.

A northerner who went to the south after the civil war for political or financial advantage. 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.