The Silver Purchase Acts and Panic of 1893 (HOM 28-A)

History of Money, Lecture 28, Pt. A: a discussion of the silver legislation and free-silver movement in the 1870s through mid 1890s, including the Bland-Allison Act of 1878 and Sherman Silver Purchase Act of 1890. In 1893 a new financial panic struck the country, a mere three months after Grover Cleveland became President. Cleveland soon faced a new Populist insurgency within the Democratic Party.
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