Carpetbaggers

Alabama p 244-45 The new Republican party, made up of freedmen, Union sympathizers ( scalawags ), and northerners who had settled in the South ( carpetbaggers ), took control two years after the war ended.

Beale argued that the Carpetbaggers themselves were pawns in the hands of northern industrialists, who were the real villains of Reconstruction.

Had he gone North, he would have joined numerous other Confederate carpetbaggers there.

He used the army to build the Republican Party in the South, based on black voters, Northern newcomers (" carpetbaggers "), and native Southern white supporters (" scalawags ").

In the end, after a number of large demutualisations, and pressure from carpetbaggers moving from one building society to another to cream off the windfalls, most of the remaining societies modified their rules of membership in the late 1990s.

Most of the 430 Republican newspapers in the South were edited by scalawags – only 20 percent were edited by carpetbaggers.

Peppard secured a major role when he starred alongside Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), and later portrayed a character based on Howard Hughes in The Carpetbaggers (1964).

Perman 1984, ch. 3. They formed coalitions with conservative Republicans, including scalawags and carpetbaggers, emphasizing the need for economic modernization.

The tool used by the industrialists was the combination of the Northern Republican Party and sufficient Southern support using Carpetbaggers and black voters.

Thousands of Northerners came South as missionaries, teachers, businessmen and politicians; hostile elements called them " Carpetbaggers ".

Under Radical reconstruction (1867–1877), a Republican coalition of freedmen, carpetbaggers and scalawags was in control, supported by Union Army forces.