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The Panic of 1873 was a financial crisis that triggered an economic depression in Europe and North America that lasted from 1873 to 1877 or 1879 in France and in Britain. In Britain, the Panic started two decades of stagnation known as the " Long Depression " that weakened the country's economic leadership. [ 1 ]
One of the key themes of the address was the financial panic that began in September 1873, which Grant described as a significant economic crisis. He called for measures to increase the elasticity of the monetary system and to move the nation toward a specie payment system, stating, "We can never have permanent prosperity until a specie basis ...
In the United States, historians refer to the Depression of 1873–1879, kicked off by the Panic of 1873, and followed by the Panic of 1893, book-ending an era of prosperity. The U.S. National Bureau of Economic Research dates the contraction following the panic as lasting from October 1873 to March 1879. At 65 months, it is the longest-lasting ...
The Panic of 1873 was triggered by the collapse of the economic empire of financier Jay Cooke (1822-1905). The Workingmen's Party of Illinois was a radical political organization which emerged during the Panic of 1873, the greatest economic crisis in the United States between the Panic of 1837 and the Great Depression of 1929.
On September 24, 1869, a gold panic broke out in the United States, triggering a financial crisis. The panic, which became known as Black Friday , was the result of a conspiracy between two investors, Jay Gould , later joined by his partner James Fisk , and Abel Corbin , a small time speculator who had married Virginia (Jennie) Grant, the ...
Reserves held by banks were insufficient to be able to meet seasonal demands in autumn of 1873 as greenback reserves declined from $34 million in September 1873 to $5 million in October 1873. [2] Tensions surrounding the Panic of 1873 between creditors and debtors revived the specie payment resumption debate. Two views dominated this debate.
September 18, 1873: New York stock market crash triggered the Panic of 1873, part of the Long Depression; November 4, 1874: United States House of Representatives elections, 1874-Democrats regained control of the U.S. House of Representatives for the first time since 1860
After being forced out of the Erie Railroad, Gould started to build up a system of railroads in the Midwest and West. He took control of the Union Pacific in 1873, after its stock had been depressed by the Panic of 1873, and he built a viable railroad that depended on shipments from farmers and ranchers. He immersed himself in every operational ...