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Definition of Carpetbaggers
1. carpetbagger [n] - See also: carpetbagger
Lexicographical Neighbors of Carpetbaggers
Literary usage of Carpetbaggers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of the United States Since the Civil War by Ellis Paxson Oberholtzer (1922)
"carpetbaggers AND SCALAWAGS Southern people, asked the New Orleans Times. "Is it
their weakness, their utter helplessness, their silent despair which ..."
2. How the World Votes: The Story of Democratic Development in Elections by Charles Seymour, Donald Paige Frary (1918)
"Led by infamous characters from the North, the carpetbaggers, ... For ten years
the carpetbaggers carried on with impunity an orgy of public robbery ..."
3. Documentary History of Reconstruction: Political, Military, Social by Walter Lynwood Fleming (1907)
"RESULTS AND LATER CONDITIONS le Negro's Heritage from the carpetbaggers Wallace,
Carpet Bag Rule in Florida, p. 345. ..."
4. Two Wars: an Autobiography of General Samuel G. French ...: Mexican War; War by Samuel Gibbs French (1901)
"Aspect of the Country at Termination of the War—The Returned Confederate
Soldier—carpetbaggers—Lincoln's Vow—His Proclamation Concerning Confiscation of ..."
5. The World Book: Organized Knowledge in Story and Picture edited by Michael Vincent O'Shea, Ellsworth D. Foster, George Herbert Locke (1918)
"... restoring civil rights to all but about 300 persons in the South; this marked
the beginning of the end of “carpet-bag” rule (see carpetbaggers). ..."
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