What is a carpetbagger? A carpetbagger was a northerner who tried to take advantage of the south and get rich by taking political office which confederate whites previously held. These men traveled to the south with old travel bags called carpetbags.
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a person who deserted the military during the Civil War and went west

a farm worker who picket cotton and put it into carpet bags

a person from the North who went to the South after the Civil War to make money

a person from the South who went north after the Civil War to sell carpet