Carpetbagger - Carpetbagger

...However, the radical reconstruction policies of Congress overcame the President's veto, and the Reconstruction Act of 1867 gave blacks the right to vote, and a large number of blacks entered the political sphere. These reconstruction policies were carried out in a manner that involved complicated interests between the races of whites in the South and blacks, between the regions of the South and the North, and between political parties, such as the conflict between carpetbaggers (a group of politicians who came from the North with only one bag in search of profits, the Republican Party) and the Bourbons (conservative white leaders of the South, the Democrat Party). At the same time, terrorism and violence, such as that represented by the Ku Klux Klan, were rampant, and this period is called the ``Age of Hatred'' or ``Age of Tragedy'' in the history of the United States. ...

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…しかし，議会による急進的再建政策が大統領の拒否をのりこえ，67年再建法成立によって黒人に参政権が与えられ，大量の黒人が政治の領域に進出した。　これらの再建政策が，南部の白人と黒人との間の人種間の，南部と北部との地域間の，そしてカーペットバッガー(利権を求めてかばん一つで北部からやってきた一旗組の政治家たち＝共和党)とブルボン(南部保守派白人指導者たち＝民主党)の対立に代表される政党間の錯綜した利害を絡み込んで展開された。また同時に，クー･クラックス･クランに代表されるテロリズムと暴力が横行したこともあって，この時期は合衆国史における〈憎しみの時代〉もしくは〈悲劇の時代〉と呼ばれる。…

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