Question

What is a carpetbagger?

Answer 1

Answer:

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.

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