Carpetbaggers and Scalawags

     Carpetbaggers were businessmen with interests in enlisting government aid for private enterprises. Usually Northerners who moved to the South following the war. Not to be confused with scalawags, who were former Whig planters or merchants who had originally been born in the South or immigrated there before the war and now sought to develop commercially and industrially. These two were two of the three social groups that made up a new party, the southern Republican Party, organized in 1867.