Look up: Carpet-Bagger

1. Carpet Bagger
   Carpet Baggers was a name first given to American Northern state politicians who sought temporary homes in the Southern States in order to obtain qualifications for admission to Congress from these Southern States. After 1865 the name was given to Northern Republicans who settled in the South and la...
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2. carpetbagger
   [n] - an outsider who seeks power or success presumptuously
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3. Carpetbagger
   A building society customer who opens an account in the hope the building society will demutualise and pay a windfall of cash or shares.
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4. Carpetbagger
   Someone who becomes an account holder with a building society in the hope of benefiting from a... <a target=_blank href='http://www.finance-glossary.com/terms/carpetbagger.htm?id=1871&ginPtrCode=00000&PopupMode=false' title='Read full definition of carpetbagger'>more</a>
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5. carpetbagger
   In US history, derogatory name for any of the entrepreneurs and politicians from the North who moved to the Southern states during Reconstruction (1865-77) after the Civil War, to exploit the...
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6. Carpetbagger
   Car'pet·bag`ger noun An adventurer; -- a term of contempt for a Northern man seeking private gain or political advancement in the southern part of the United States after the Civil War (1865). [ U. S.]
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7. carpetbagger
   noun an outsider who seeks power or success presumptuously; `after the Civil War the carpetbaggers from the north tried to take over the south`
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8. Carpetbagger
   • (n.) An adventurer; -- a term of contempt for a Northern man seeking private gain or political advancement in the southern part of the United States after the Civil War (1865).
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9. carpetbagger
   during the Reconstruction period (1865–77) following the American Civil War, any Northern politician or financial adventurer accused of going South ... [1 related articles]
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10. carpetbagger
    In US history, derogatory name for any of the entrepreneurs and politicians from the North who moved to the Southern states during Reconstruction (1865–77) after the Civil War, to exploit the chaotic conditions for their own benefit. With the votes of newly enfranchised blacks and some local white people (called scalawags), they won posts in n...
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11. Carpetbagger
    In United States history, "carpetbaggers" was a pejorative term Southerners gave to Northerners (also referred to as Yankees) who moved to the South during the Reconstruction era, between 1865 and 1877. The term referred to the observation that these newcomers tended to carry "carpet ...
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