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Who is Carptebaggers from Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 and what is their importance?

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Carpetbaggers were Northerners who relocated to the South after the conclusion of the American Civil War. During the Reconstruction era (1865–1877), carpetbaggers were denounced by white Southerners who feared they came to loot and plunder the South.

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Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877