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-Southerners' pejorative term for a northern migrant who sought opportunity in the South after the Civil War.Northern migrants formed an important part of the southern Republican party.
A)black codes
B)carpetbagger
C)Civil Rights Act of 1866
D)Compromise of 1877
E)Fifteenth Amendment
F)Fourteenth Amendment
G)Freedmen's Bureau
H)Ku Klux Klan
I)Military Reconstruction Act
J)Redeemers
K)scalawag
L)sharecropping

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"Carpetbagger" was a pejorative term used by Southerners to describe Northern migrants who came to the South seeking economic opportunities after the Civil War.

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