The Mississippi Plan of 1875

a. was a railroad scheme that went bankrupt.
b. saw black voters voting Democratic in return for guarantees of civil rights.
c. failed to win the state for the Democratic Party.
d. drove Republicans from power by violence.


ANSWER: d

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