Question

Why did many Southerners dislike Carpetbaggers? A. They won most of the high political offices in the North after the Civil War. B. They took advantage of the political and economic chaos in the South after the Civil War. C. They worked with new arrivals from the North and betrayed their fellow Southerners. D. They went around the South freeing the slaves after the Civil War.

Answer 1

Carpet Baggers: Mostly an offensive word that is used to describe a northerner that only moved to South to make profit from the reconstruction.

B. They took advantage of the political and economic chaos in the South after the Civil War.