The term carpetbagger, used exclusively as a pejorative term, originated from the carpet bag, a form of cheap luggage, made from carpet fabric, which many of the newcomers carried. The term came to be associated with opportunism and exploitation by outsiders.

2010年6月24日 · In general, the term “carpetbagger” refers to a traveler who arrives in a new region with only a satchel (or carpetbag) of possessions, and who attempts to profit from or gain control over his...

carpetbagger, in the United States, a derogatory term for an individual from the North who relocated to the South during the Reconstruction period (1865–77), following the American Civil War.

The meaning of CARPETBAGGER is a Northerner in the South after the American Civil War usually seeking private gain under the Reconstruction governments.

2024年9月24日 · Carpetbaggers were Northerners who tried to help rebuild the South after the Civil War during Reconstruction. Although Carpetbaggers helped establish public schools throughout the South, they earned a reputation for corruption that tarnished their legacy and hindered the advancement of Civil Rights. Adelbert Ames. Image Source: National Archives.

2015年3月3日 · The term carpetbagger was used by opponents of Reconstruction—the period from 1865 to 1877 when the Southern states that seceded were reorganized as part of the Union—to describe Northerners...

2020年10月31日 · The term "carpetbagger" is routinely applied to political candidates who run for office in a region where they are recent arrivals. The term came about in the years following the Civil War, when northerners flocked to the defeated South to do business and were bitterly portrayed as unscrupulous outsiders engaged in political corruption and ...

2011年7月27日 · Carpetbagger referred to Republicans who had recently migrated from the North; scalawag referred to southern-born radicals. Words such as carpetbagger and scalawag are ideographs, symbolic words so resonant with political imagery and meaning that they influence political behavior.

Definition. Carpetbaggers were individuals, primarily from the North, who moved to the South after the Civil War, often seen as opportunists seeking to exploit the post-war turmoil for personal gain.

carpetbaggers Northerners who went to the South after the Civil War to take part in Reconstruction governments, when persons who had supported the Confederacy were not …