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The greenback's low point came in July that year, with 258 greenbacks equal to 100 gold. When the war ended in April 1865 the greenback made another recovery to 150. [11] The recovery began when Congress limited the total issue of greenback dollars to $450 million. The greenbacks rose in value until December 1878, when they became on par with gold.
They took two forms: Demand Notes, issued in July 1861 (Congress authorized $50,000,000 in Demand Notes) [2] and United States Notes issued between 1862 and 1865. [ 3 ] Eleven months after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln - which took place on April 14, 1865 - Congress passed the Contraction Act to lower the price level so they could ...
A Demand Note is a type of United States paper money that was issued from August 1861 to April 1862 during the ... Greenback (1860s money) History of the United ...
A "greenback" note issued during the Civil War One of the first attempts to issue a national currency came in the early days of the Civil War when Congress approved the Legal Tender Act of 1862 , allowing the issue of $150 million in national notes known as greenbacks and mandating that paper money be issued and accepted in lieu of gold and ...
These notes were made receivable for the bonds of the National loans, for all debts due to or from the United States, except duties on imports and interest on the public debt, and were also declared a legal tender. In March, 1863, the issue of notes for parts of a dollar was authorized to an amount not exceeding fifty millions of dollars.
As defined in AHD and Merriam-Webster, and as already correct at Wiktionary's greenback entry. This article needs fixing. It needs to be called Greenback (1860s money) with a hatnote that points to other greenbacks that are also money, namely, United States Notes and Federal Reserve Notes. Quercus solaris 03:15, 18 September 2015 (UTC) Done.
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