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The overseas credit allowed colonists to develop a system of domestic credit. The domestic credit was administered in two forms: book credit and promissory notes. Promissory notes are very similar to bonds, because they detailed the amount of debt, date of issue, date of redemption, form of repayment and an interest rate.
The Bank of North America was the first chartered bank in the United States, and served as the country's first de facto central bank. [1] It was chartered by the Congress of the Confederation on May 26, 1781, and opened in Philadelphia on January 7, 1782. [2] [3] [4]
[2] Investment banking began in the 1860s with the establishment of Jay Cooke & Company, one of the first selling agents for government bonds. [2] In 1863, the National Bank Act was passed to create a national currency and a federal banking system, and to make public loans. [2] But at that time not all parts of the country had become states.
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The bank was funded in part by bullion coins loaned to the United States by France. [58] Morris helped finance the final stages of the war by issuing notes in his name, backed by his personal line of credit, which was further backed by a French loan of $450 ,000 in silver coins. [ 59 ]
Nicholas Biddle was born into a prominent family in Philadelphia, in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, [6] on January 8, 1786. [7] Ancestors of the Biddle family had immigrated to the Pennsylvania colony along with the famous Quaker proprietor, William Penn, and subsequently fought in the pre-Revolutionary colonial struggles. [8]
Morris hoped that the bank would help finance the war, stabilize the nation's currency, and bring the country together under one unified monetary policy. [83] As the bank would take some time to begin functioning, in 1781 Morris presided over the issuing of a new currency, referred to as "Morris notes," backed by Morris's own funds. [84]
[2] [3] During this time, speculation was the investment of choice, leading to the Panic of 1792. Former Continental Congressman William Duer raised large sums of money to invest in bank stock and government securities, novel and financially sophisticated assets whose risks many contemporaries failed to understand. Duer soon defaulted on his ...