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Carpetbagger

In the history of the United States, carpetbagger is a largely historical pejorative used by Southerners to describe opportunistic or disruptive Northerners who came to the Southern states after the American Civil War and were perceived to be exploiting the local populace for their own financial, political, or social gain. The term broadly included both…

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Carpetbagger

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related to Bibliography · 218
Carpetbagger → African American, African Americans, African-American Carpetbagger, Alabama, Alabama Politics, Alabama Press, Alabama Review, Albion Winegar Tourgee, Ambitions, America's Unfinished Revolution, American Journal, American Negro, American Republic, Ardent Feminist, Arkansas, Arkansas Historical Quarterly, Arkansas History, Ash, Barnes, Biography
related to Texas · 31
Carpetbagger → About, Active, African American, African-American, At, Blacks, Carpetbaggers, Colored Men, Deep South, Exoduster, Freedmen's Bureau, Galveston, George Thompson Ruby, He, January, Kansas, Labor Union, Legislature, New England, New Orleans
related to North Carolina · 22
Carpetbagger → Carpetbaggers, Corruption, Democrats, Du Bois, Escott, Foner, General Milton, Historians Foner, Legislature, Littlefield, None, North Carolina, North Carolina Democrats, Paul Escott, Planters, Prince, Reconstruction, Republican, Republicans, The
related to Economic motives · 16
Carpetbagger → Accustomed, Carpetbaggers, Congress, Foner, Leading, Most, Northern, Puritan, Reconstruction, Some, South, South's, Southerners, The, Union, Union Army
related to Etymology and definition · 16
Carpetbagger → According, Brownlow, Civil, Fletcher, It, June, North, Oliver Temple Perry, Radical Republican Andrew, State, Tennessee, Tennessee Governor William, Tennessee Secretary, The, United States, War
related to World War II · 16
Carpetbagger → Agent, Among, B-24, Between January, British Agents, During World War II, England, Europe, Office, Operation Carpetbagger, RAF Harrington, September, Strategic Services, The, The OSS, Underground/Resistance
related to background · 12
Carpetbagger → Civil War, Democratic Southerners, Historian Eric Foner, Most, North, Republican, Republican Party, Scalawags, South, Southerners, The Republican Party, White
related to Arkansas · 10
Carpetbagger → Arkansas Republican Party, Baxter War, Brindle Tail, Brooks, Democratic, Elisha Baxter, Joseph Brooks, Minstrel, Republican Party, The
related to Australia · 8
Carpetbagger → Australian, In Australia, John Fahey, Liberal, New South Wales, Premier, Queensland, The
related to Historiography · 6
Carpetbagger → After, American, Northern, The, The Dunning, White

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Carpetbaggeris alargely historical pejorative used by Southerners to describe opportunistic or disruptive Northerners who came to the Southern states after the American Civil War and were perce…0.90text
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Carpetbaggerrelated to ArkansasThe0.60section
Carpetbaggerrelated to ArkansasBrooks0.60section
Carpetbaggerrelated to ArkansasBaxter War0.60section
Carpetbaggerrelated to ArkansasArkansas Republican Party0.60section
Carpetbaggerrelated to ArkansasMinstrel0.60section
Carpetbaggerrelated to ArkansasElisha Baxter0.60section
Carpetbaggerrelated to ArkansasBrindle Tail0.60section
Carpetbaggerrelated to ArkansasJoseph Brooks0.60section
Carpetbaggerrelated to ArkansasRepublican Party0.60section

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