During Reconstruction, most "carpetbaggers" were

A. Northern politicians who took offices in Southern states.
B. freedmen who moved out of the South.
C. former confederates who moved to the West.
D. white Southerners who moved to the North.
E. Northern white veterans who moved to the South.


Answer: E

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