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The Coinage Act of 1873 stopped the minting of silver coins.
The first organized action in the prelude to the American revolution.
The Panic of 1873 closed the banks.
The southerners and the westerners primarily favored the free coinage system.
Enforced separate but equal. In other words, it enforced segregation. It was changed in the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (100 years later) which said Segregation= Unequal= Unconstitutional.
The Coinage Act of 1873 stopped the minting of silver coins.
The Coinage Act of 1873 stopped the minting of silver coins.
The Coinage Act of 1873 stopped the minting of silver coins.
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It stopped the use of silver as money in the United States.
The things that happened after the panic of 1873 were the downfall of the Jay Cooke and Company in September 1973, and the Coinage act of 1873. Another thing that happened was the Great Railroad Strike in 1877.
The Coinage Act of established the United States coinage system. It was also commonly known as the Mint Act.
In 1873 the US passed the Coinage Act of 1873, which effectively moved the US to a gold standard for its currency. This caused problems for the silver mining industry in the western US, which were already suffering from a drop in the value of silver thanks to happenings in Europe.
Silver is the precious metal that "soft-money" advocates demanded be coined again to compensate for the Crime of '73. It was the demonetization of silver enacted by the Coinage Act of 1873.
The Morgan Dollar was minted from 1878 to 1904. Then again in 1921. The Morgan Dollar was no longer minted after the passing of the Coinage Act of 1873 which resulted in the stoppage of coining free silver.
the building of a mint
The Mint was made an independent agency in 1799. Under the Coinage Act of 1873, the Mint became part of the Department of the Treasury. It was placed under the auspices of the Treasurer of the United States in 1981.