What role did Governor Edmund Davis play in Texas becoming a one-party Democratic state by the 1870s?
a. He led a mass defection of the Republican Party to the Democrats, effectively crippling the Republicans.
b. In the years following the Civil War, his administration took steps to ban Republicans from being elected.
c. His Radical Republican administration during Reconstruction generated strong anti-Republican feelings.
d. The failure of his administration to tackle unemployment was directly blamed on the Republican Party.
Answer: c
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