Which of the Following Descriptions Best Fits the Carpetbaggers

Multiple Choice

Which of the following descriptions best fits the carpetbaggers?

A) They were former Union soldiers who hoped to buy land, open factories, build railroads, or enjoy a warmer climate.
B) They were Southerners who sought wealth and power, and who carried so few possessions that they could be stuffed into traveling bags made of carpet material.
C) They were predominantly poor and ignorant white southerners who sought to profit from Republican rule.
D) They were uneducated freedmen who moved to northern cities for better economic opportunity, and who took with them only what they could fit in a traveling bag.
E) They were sharecroppers who constituted the rank-and-file of the new Ku Klux Klan.