Mississippi Scheme (English, name)
expansion: the Mississippi Scheme
Senses:
glosses: A financial scheme devised by John Law in 18th-century France.
tags: France
historical
glosses: A political strategy used by white Democrats in Mississippi during the Reconstruction era, by intimadting black voters and to guarantee that white Democrats would take control of the state government.
tags: US
historical
Forms:
form: the Mississippi Scheme
tags: canonical