The Gold Standard Act was an Act of the United States Congress, signed by President William McKinley and effective on March 14, 1900, defining the United...

A gold standard is a monetary system in which the standard economic unit of account is based on a fixed quantity of gold. The gold standard was the basis...

immoral” and “a flagrant violation of the solemn promises made in the Gold Standard Act of 1900” and promises made to purchasers of Liberty and Victory Loans...

bimetallic standard in terms of a fixed quantity of silver or gold, it formally adopted the gold standard in 1900, and finally eliminated all links to gold in...

$20.67 per troy ounce. The Gold Standard Act of 1900 linked the dollar solely to gold. From 1934, its equivalence to gold was revised to $35 per troy...

The United States Gold Reserve Act of January 30, 1934 required that all gold and gold certificates held by the Federal Reserve be surrendered and vested...

into standard silver dollars, while allowing holders of gold to continue to have their bullion made into money, the act created a gold standard by default...

eventual removal of the bimetallic standard, including the Bland–Allison Act and the acceptance of the gold standard formed the monetary stability in the...

a US coin. The Act defined the proportional value of gold and silver as 15 units of pure silver to 1 unit of pure gold. Standard gold was defined as 11...

coin. An Act of Congress, passed on March 3, 1865, allowed the Mint Director, with the Secretary's approval, to place the phrase on all gold and silver...

passed the Contraction Act to lower the price level so they could instate a gold standard. Greenback (1860s money) Coinage Act of 1873 Demand Note United...

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workers from foreign competition and in 1900 secured the passage of the Gold Standard Act. He hoped to persuade Spain to grant independence to rebellious Cuba...

observed a gold standard, the certificates offered a more convenient way to pay in gold than the use of coins. General public ownership of gold certificates...

drive gold from circulation, effectively placing the United States on a silver standard. To advocates of what became known as free silver, the 1873 act became...

Romer, Christina D. (2006). "Was the Federal Reserve Constrained by the Gold Standard During the Great Depression? Evidence from the 1932 Open Market Program"...

the second-lowest in the reactivity series. It is solid under standard conditions. Gold often occurs in free elemental (native state), as nuggets or grains...

of fine gold, compared to 247.5 grains in the prior Act. This fixed the official basis of the dollar as $20.69 per troy ounce. This standard prevailed...

silver standard is a monetary system in which the standard economic unit of account is a fixed weight of silver. Silver was far more widespread than gold as...

the gold standard. Coinage Act of 1792 Coinage Act of 1834 Coinage Act of 1849 Coinage Act of 1857 Coinage Act of 1864 Coinage Act of 1873 Coinage Act of...

Parliament, by the Coinage Act 1816, placed Britain officially on the gold standard, with the pound to be defined as a given quantity of gold. Almost every speaker...

on the gold standard again until the Resumption Act of 1875. Contraction Act of 1866 John Sherman Gold Standard Salmon P. Chase Resumption Act Mitchell...

currency Gold Standard Act of the United States (1900), also sometimes called the "Currency Act" Mercantilism Navigation Acts Sugar Act 1764 Stamp Act 1765...

Coinage Act of 1849 was an Act of the United States Congress passed during the California Gold Rush authorizing the Mint to produce two new gold coins in...

backed by silver rather than gold. Instead of the $2 million to $4 million that had been required by the Bland–Allison Act of 1878, the US government was...

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...

established in 1842. Its purpose, as defined by the Railway Clearing-House Act of 1850, was "to settle and adjust the receipts arising from railway traffic...

the gold standard, and to trade in a narrow band with other gold-backed currencies. To accomplish this end, central banks as part of the gold standard began...

pertaining to a treasurer. The earliest found artefacts made of silver and gold are from Lake Varna in Bulgaria dated 4250–4000 BC, the earliest of copper...

precious metals into standard coin for anyone's account with no seigniorage charge beyond the refining costs. Under the Coinage Act of 1873, the Mint became...