Gold Standard Act

United States [1900]

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Free Silver Movement

U.S. gold reserves

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    In United States: Economic recovery

    …1900 that Congress enacted the Gold Standard Act, which required the Treasury to maintain a minimum gold reserve of \$150,000,000 and authorized the issuance of bonds, if necessary, to protect that minimum. In 1900 such a measure was almost anticlimactic, for an adequate gold supply had ceased to be a…

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