Carpet Bag Pattern Civil War. This became a way to identify an outsider (traveler) in town. Carpetbaggers was the highly derisive name given to northerners who went south after the fall of the confederate states of america (csa).
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Carpetbaggers and scalawags were the terms for northerners who took advantage of post‑civil war upheaval and southerners who supported reconstruction policies. This became a way to identify an outsider (traveler) in town. During the reconstruction era after the civil war, northerners who ventured south in search of profit and political opportunity carried their personal goods and belongings in carpetbags and were derisively called.
This became a way to identify an outsider (traveler) in town. Carpetbaggers was the highly derisive name given to northerners who went south after the fall of the confederate states of america (csa). Carpetbaggers and scalawags were the terms for northerners who took advantage of post‑civil war upheaval and southerners who supported reconstruction policies.
