To what situation was historian T.H. Fehrenbach referring when he stated that "Democrat politicos bluntly indicated that power would be won depending on who outfrauded whom"?

A. the 1873 gubernatorial election that led to Reconstruction governor Edmund J. Davis's defeat.
B. Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna's suspension of the powers of the Mexican Congress and local governments
C. removal of Texas governor Sam Houston for refusing to take a loyalty oath to the Confederacy when the Civil War broke out
D. limitation of Republican delegates to the convention that wrote the 1876 Texas Constitution.


Answer: A

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