Question

What is a carpetbagger?

A carpetbagger was a northerner who tried to take advantage of the south and get rich by taking political office which confederate whites previously held. These men traveled to the south with old travel bags called carpetbags.
Group of answer choices

a person who deserted the military during the Civil War and went west

a farm worker who picket cotton and put it into carpet bags

a person from the North who went to the South after the Civil War to make money

a person from the South who went north after the Civil War to sell carpet

Answer 1

In reality, most Reconstruction-era carpetbaggers were well-educated members of the middle class; they worked as teachers, merchants, journalists or other types of businessmen, or at the Freedman's Bureau, an organization created by Congress to provide aid for newly liberated black Americans.

Step-by-step explanation:

In other words it would probably be:

a person from the North who went to the South after the Civil War to make money