1) Corrupt Northerner of 1865 2) Opportunist 3) Reconstruction outsider 4) Self-seeker
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In United States history, a carpetbagger was a Northerner (Yankee) who moved to the South after the U.S. Civil War, especially during the Reconstruction era (1865-1877), in order to profit from the instability and power vacuum that existed at this time. The term carpetbagger was a pejorative term referring to the carpet bags (a fashionable form of...
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• (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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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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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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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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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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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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n] - an outsider who seeks power or success presumptuously
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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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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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