The government of mere adventurers.
Carpet bag government definition.
How to use carpetbag in a sentence.
During the reconstruction period 1865 77 to denote a northerner who moved to the south.
Carpetbag definition a bag for traveling especially one made of carpeting.
The term is now used in the united states to refer to a parachute candidate that is an outsider who runs.
It was applied to politicians and financial adventurers whom southerners accused of coming south to use the newly enfranchised freedmen to obtain office or profit.
Northern political adventurers who sought a career in the southern states after the civil war of 1865.
In america a state in the south reorganised by carpet baggers i e.
Carpetbag synonyms carpetbag pronunciation carpetbag translation english dictionary definition of carpetbag.
Carpetbag definition is a traveler s bag made of carpet and widely used in the u s.
A traveling bag made of carpet fabric that was used chiefly in the united states during the 1800s.
A travelling bag originally made of carpeting meaning pronunciation translations and examples.
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Carpetbagger derogatory term originally used in the u s.