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Which is the correct definition of the post-civil war term carpetbagger?

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he 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.
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The answer to this question is C) a person from the north who would move to the south in order to make money

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