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    The BlandAllison Act, also referred to as the Grand Bland Plan of 1878, was an act of the United States Congress requiring the U.S. Treasury to buy a...
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    in "Dollar". The dollar was authorized by the BlandAllison Act. Following the passage of the 1873 act, mining interests lobbied to restore free silver...
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    private citizens. The resulting BlandAllison Act passed both houses of Congress in 1878. Hayes feared that the act would cause inflation through the...
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    "Silver Dick" for his efforts to promote bimetallism, Bland is best known for the BlandAllison Act. Born in Kentucky, he established a legal practice in...
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  • Instead of the $2 million to $4 million that had been required by the BlandAllison Act of 1878, the US government was now required to purchase 4.5 million...
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    groundwork for further reform in the 1880s and 1890s. He vetoed the BlandAllison Act of 1878, which put silver money into circulation and raised nominal...
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    the Act on a number of external factors including a conspiracy involving foreign investors and government conspirators. In response, the BlandAllison Act...
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    Conventions. Allison emerged as a centrist and pragmatic leader in the Senate, and he helped pass several important bills. The BlandAllison Act of 1878 restored...
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    Greenbacks (paper money not backed by gold or silver) and vetoed the BlandAllison Act that called for more silver in the money supply. Congress overrode...
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    67/ounce Gold standard Specie Payment Resumption Act BlandAllison Act Sherman Silver Purchase Act Including gold certificates, United States notes,...
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  • and no mintages at all, in 1922 — echoing what happened after the Bland-Allison Act of 1878 was passed, which also resumed the coinage of silver dollars...
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    nomination were former Congressman Bland, who had originated the Bland-Allison Act, and former Iowa Governor Horace Boies, with Bland considered the frontrunner...
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    then, forces for silver coinage had been victorious in passing the BlandAllison Act, requiring the government to purchase large quantities of silver bullion...
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    tender, and after the passage of the BlandAllison Act in 1878, production resumed with the Morgan dollar. The Mint Act of 1792 made both gold and silver...
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  • portal Coinage Act of 1792 Coinage Act of 1834 Coinage Act of 1849 Coinage Act of 1853 Coinage Act of 1857 Coinage Act of 1873 Coinage Act of 1965 "History...
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    Act of 1887, which established the first independent federal agency. During his first term, he unsuccessfully sought the repeal of the BlandAllison Act...
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    The Federal Reserve Act was passed by the 63rd United States Congress and signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson on December 23, 1913. The law created...
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    official currency of the United States and several other countries. The Coinage Act of 1792 introduced the U.S. dollar at par with the Spanish silver dollar...
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    required under the BlandAllison Act were greatly increased under the terms of the Sherman Silver Purchase Act. Although the Sherman Act was repealed in...
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    (whereas it had been greater historically). In the United States, the Coinage Act of 1965 eliminated silver from circulating dimes and quarter dollars, and...
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    BlandAllison Act. Silver interests objected to the silver from redeemed trade dollars being counted towards the Mint's monthly quota under the act,...
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    was minted with five different designs. First authorized by the Coinage Act of 1792 on April 2, 1792, the coin was produced in the United States from...
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    February 28, 1878: BlandAllison Act (Coinage Act (Silver Dollar)), Sess. 2, ch. 20, 20 Stat. 25 April 29, 1878: National Quarantine Act of 1878, Sess. 2...
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    bimetallism grew in the 1870s, and resulted in the passage of the BlandAllison Act of February 28, 1878, over the veto of President Rutherford B. Hayes...
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    Fourth Coinage Act in 1873, which demonetized silver and was called the "Crime of '73" by opponents, until 1963, when the Silver Purchase Act of 1934, which...
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    numbers of silver Morgan dollars were minted from 1878 pursuant to the Bland-Allison Act, there also existed an option to hold silver certificates fully backed...
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    clear constitutional directive, Congress passed the Electoral Commission Act, which established a 15-member commission of eight Republicans and seven...
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    miners to monetize their produce resulted in the BlandAllison Act of 1878 and Sherman Silver Purchase Act of 1890 which made compulsory the minting of significant...
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    appear on all Federal Reserve notes. The department was established by an Act of Congress in 1789 to manage government revenue. The first secretary of...
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  • are still found in circulation. Prior to 1965 and passage of the Coinage Act of 1965 the composition of the dime, quarter, half-dollar and dollar coins...
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