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    The Bank War was a political struggle that developed over the issue of rechartering the Second Bank of the United States (B.U.S.) during the presidency...
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    deep hostility to most banks, vetoed the measure, ratcheting up tensions in a major political controversy known as the Bank War. When Jackson transferred...
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    The Second Bank of the United States was the second federally authorized Hamiltonian national bank in the United States. Located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania...
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    establish a central banking system, which the country had lacked since the Bank War of the 1830s. After Democrats won unified control of Congress and the presidency...
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    A central bank, reserve bank, national bank, or monetary authority is an institution that manages the currency and monetary policy of a country or monetary...
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    also occurred in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and with Hezbollah along the Israel–Lebanon border. The fifth war of the Gaza–Israel conflict since 2008,...
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  • continuance of the greenback policy even after the War, while also raising the reserve requirements of the banks to 50%. This would have allowed the US to develop...
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    Bank. Melani Cammett, an American political scientist, stated on 18 January that the intensification of fighting in the West Bank indicated the war "is...
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    Washington. Although Hamilton later noted the bank's "essential" contribution to the American Revolutionary War, the Pennsylvania government objected to its...
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    Andrew Jackson (category American Revolutionary War prisoners of war held by Great Britain)
    the Bank War, land speculation in the west caused the Panic of 1837. Jackson's transfer of federal monies to state banks in 1833 caused western banks to...
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    currency, a nationalized bank chartering system, and to raise money for the Union war effort. The Act established national banks that could issue notes...
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  • Napoleonic Wars, its severity was compounded by excessive speculation in public lands, fueled by the unrestrained issue of paper money from banks and business...
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    Directors and Company of the Bank of the United States, commonly known as the First Bank of the United States, was a national bank, chartered for a term of...
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    "West Bank", as part of the proposed Arab state. Following the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, this area was captured by Transjordan. During the 1948 war, Israel...
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    Hammond, Bray. Banks and Politics in America from the Revolution to the Civil War (1960), Pulitzer prize; the standard history. Pro-Bank Heale, M.J. The...
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  • first issued in 1914, and differ from their predecessor Federal Reserve Bank Notes in that they were liabilities of the whole Federal Reserve System....
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    Six-Day War would have long-term consequences, as around 280000 to 325000 Palestinians and 100000 Syrians fled or were expelled from the West Bank and the...
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    serving as a bank for central banks. With its establishment in 1929, its initial purpose was to oversee the settlement of World War I war reparations....
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    General William Wirt. Jackson faced heavy criticism for his actions in the Bank War, but remained popular among the general public. He won a majority of the...
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  • Norges Bank (Bokmål: Norges Bank, Nynorsk: Noregs Bank, lit. 'Bank of Norway') is the central bank of Norway. It is responsible for managing the Government...
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    Henry Clay (category People from Kentucky in the War of 1812)
    application set off the "Bank War"; Congress passed a bill to renew the national bank's charter, but Jackson vetoed it, holding the bank to be unconstitutional...
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    Development Bank of the Philippines (DBP) is a state-owned development bank headquartered in Makati, Philippines. It was established after World War II in 1947...
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    and the Postal Savings Bank of China (est. 2007). After a long period of relative stability, including through two world wars and the European banking...
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    the Second Bank of the United States, which he viewed as an anti-democratic bastion of elitism. Jackson emerged triumphant in the "Bank War" and the federal...
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    Roger B. Taney (category People of Maryland in the American Civil War)
    important members of Jackson's cabinet and played a major role in the Bank War. Beginning in 1833, Taney served as secretary of the treasury under a recess...
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    requested a renewal of the national bank's charter in January 1832, setting off what became known as the "Bank War." With Clay focusing on a tariff bill...
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    which produced bank notes not representing sufficient reserves; and the Mississippi Company scheme of John Law. During the American Civil War, the Federal...
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    The Fuji Bank, Limited (株式会社富士銀行, Kabushiki-gaisha Fuji Ginkō) was one of Japan's major banks during the post–World War II era. It combined with Dai-Ichi...
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    JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., doing business as Chase, is an American national bank headquartered in New York City that constitutes the consumer and commercial...
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  • monetary and financial conditions which World War I had brought. The SARB was only the fourth central bank established outside the United Kingdom and Europe...
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