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Definitions of carpetbagger in various dictionaries:
noun - an outsider who seeks power or success presumptuously
A Northerner who went to the South after the Civil War for political or financial advantage.
An outsider, especially a politician, who presumptuously seeks a position or success in a new locality.
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| From what he's carrying, it's the nickname of the Northerner seen here: |
| Luggage-based term for a war-profiteering Northerner in the Postbellum South |
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| a political candidate who seeks election in an area where they have no local connections. |
| an outsider who seeks power or success presumptuously |
| A political candidate who seeks election in an area where they have no local connections. |
| A Northerner who went to the South after the Civil War for political or financial advantage. |
| An outsider, especially a politician, who presumptuously seeks a position or success in a new locality. |
| someone who tries to be elected as a politician in a place away from their home because they think there is a greater chance of succeeding there |
| someone who invests in a financial organization that is owned by its members, in order to make a profit if it is sold: |
| a person from the American North who tried to profit in the American South after the Civil War |
| a politician who runs for election in a place where he or she does not live or has only lived for a short time: |
| a person who joins a mutual organization ( one that is owned by its members rather than by shareholders) hoping that it will become a company with shares and pay its members to agree: |
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In the history of the United States, a carpetbagger was any person from the Northern United States who came to the Southern states after the American Civil War and was perceived to be exploiting the local populace for their own purposes. This broadly included both individuals who sought to promote Republican politics (which favored, among other things, better treatment of freedmen), and individuals who saw unscrupulous business opportunities because of the chaotic state of the local economies following the war. In practice, the term carpetbagger was often applied to any Northerner who was present in the South during the Reconstruction Era (18631877). * White Southerners commonly denounced carpetbaggers collectively during the post-war years, fearing they would loot and plunder the defeated South and be politically allied with the Radical Republicans. Many of their fears regarding the influence of the carpetbaggers came to fruition. Sixty men from the North, including educated free blacks |