Answer:
Carpetbaggers, opportunists from the north, and scalawags swindled people out of their property, exploited the poor, illiterate, and naive former slaves, giving them false promises of "forty acres and a mule" and manipulating them for their own political purposes.
If I’m not mistaken, I think it’s h o m o erectus.
Factory owners benefited greatly, while conditions for workers were poor.