White Southerners labelled people who moved from the North to the South after the war as opportunistic: carpetbaggers scalawags Sons of Liberty
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The correct term for people who moved from the North to the South after the Civil War is "carpetbaggers." This term was used pejoratively by white Southerners to describe Northerners who they believed were taking advantage of the situation in the post-war South for their own profit or political gain. "Scalawags" were white Southerners who supported the Reconstruction efforts of the federal government, while the "Sons of Liberty" were a secret organization that opposed British rule in the American colonies during the Revolutionary War.