Carpetbaggers

U.S. History

In AP U.S. History (APUSH), carpetbaggers refers to Northerners who moved to the South during Reconstruction (1865–1877), often perceived as opportunistic outsiders seeking po...

Relationships

The Anaconda Plan and carpetbaggers represent two distinct but connected elements of the Civil War era: a Union military strategy designed to strangle the Confederacy, and a ter...