Carpet baggers because they carried a bag made out of material that looked like a carpet.
Probably to preserve their income. Carpet baggers ORIGINALLY went into the south for private gain, taking advantage of the defeated southerners. The North promoted it, being free enterprise/capitalism, with the odor of revenge against the people that "rebelled" against the union.
They were a political coalition in the southern us during the reconstruction era. They sought to remove the republican coalition of freedom, carpet baggers and scalawags.
Some of the problems the South faced after the civil war was money; their confederate money was absolutely useless. Another problem was Northern Carpet Baggers, who literally packed what the ad and traveled down south with all of their belongings in carpet bags. They had more money than the southerners so they pretty much took things from the southerners, in other words, took advantage of them.
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The south after the civil war
Carpet baggers never were popular because they came into the south that was recovering from the war and were northern . They carried a carpet type bag so were called carpet baggers. They bought land and buildings for pennies because people needed the money.
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Carpet baggers
After the Civil War they were known as carpet-baggers.
Carpet baggers because they carried a bag made out of material that looked like a carpet.