RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
PRESIDENT LINCOLNS LEGACY
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Southerners who supported radical Republican governments in the South.
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Northerners such as teachers and ministers who traveled South after the war to aid the freedmen.
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freed blacks who fled the South after being emancipated.
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Southern governments that refused to accept the Thirteenth Amendment.
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Detailed explanation-1: -They became wealthy landowners, hiring freedmen and white Southerners to do the labor through the development of sharecropping. Carpetbaggers also established banks and retail businesses.
Detailed explanation-2: -The term carpetbagger was used by opponents of Reconstruction-the period from 1865 to 1877 when the Southern states that seceded were reorganized as part of the Union-to describe Northerners who moved to the South after the war, supposedly in an effort to get rich or acquire political power.
Detailed explanation-3: -These “carpetbaggers”–whom many in the South viewed as opportunists looking to exploit and profit from the region’s misfortunes–supported the Republican Party, and would play a central role in shaping new southern governments during Reconstruction.
Detailed explanation-4: -Carpetbaggers were motivated to move to the South because they wanted to help former slaves, buy land or hope to start their own industry, or they came as the dishonest businessman that the southerners scorned them as.