The percentage of black voters who identify themselves as Democrats shot upward when
a. the Civil War broke out.
b. Reconstruction ended.
c. Woodrow Wilson defeated Taft and Roosevelt in 1912.
d. Lyndon Johnson backed civil rights legislation.
e. the Twenty-fourth Amendment eliminated poll taxes.
ANS: D
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