Carpet Bagger In Reconstruction Era Drawing

Courtesy of library of congress prints and photographs division.

Carpet bagger in reconstruction era drawing.

However reconstruction is a period in america s history that began the current stream of history. Yet the term is still considered to be an insult and it often features in negative campaigning. During the post war years appointees chosen by the military were placed in power to guide the recovery and in 1868. When the south seceded it had named richmond virginia as its capital city.

The term carpetbagger has changed over the years particularly since 1900 originally carpetbaggers referred to a group of northerners who moved to the south during the reconstruction period after the civil war in the united states which lasted from 1865 to 1877. By understanding the period following the civil war students can begin to see how america s history has shaped its present. The period 1866 1877 had been aptly termed the tragic era. Carpetbagger in the united states a derogatory term for an individual from the north who relocated to the south during the reconstruction period 1865 77 following the american civil war the term was applied to northern politicians and financial adventurers whom southerners accused of coming to the south to use the newly enfranchised freedmen as a means of obtaining office or profit.

The modern usage of the term is far removed from the deep bitterness and racial aspect of the reconstruction era. George chahoon a man who lived in the north country for 60 years mostly in ausable forks was the focus of two of the most remarkable incidents in the reconstruction era following the civil war. In the modern era the use of carpetbagger endures to denote someone who has moved into a region and run for office. This article provides facts and information about the carpetbaggers during the reconstruction era following the civil war.

Derogatory in meaning the word carpetbaggers alluded to the low priced makeshift luggage of the post civil war days which. Wales james albert artist c arpetbagger and scalawag are derisive epithets which southern democrats or conservatives applied to white republicans or radicals during congressional or radical reconstruction. Reconstruction was a period of united states history from 1865 to 1877 during which the nation tried to resolve the status of the ex confederate states the ex confederate leaders and freedmen ex slaves after the american civil war. Carpetbagger referred to republicans who had recently migrated from the north.

The nature of the reconstruction of the southern states after the civil war has been disputed terrain among american historians.