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  United States Greenback Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Greenback Party (Greenback-Labor Party) was an American political party that was active between 1874 and 1884.
It was established as a political party whose members were primarily farmers financially hurt by the Panic of 1873.
The Greenback Party was founded at a meeting in Indianapolis, Indiana, on November 25, 1874.
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 United States. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The United States has a broad range of climates, varying from the tropical rain-forest of Hawaii and the tropical savanna of S Florida (where the Everglades are found) to the subarctic and tundra climates of Alaska.
The United States is also one of the largest producers of cattle, hogs, cow’s milk, butter, cotton, oats, wheat, barley, and sugar; it is the world’s leading exporter of wheat and corn and ranks third in rice exports.
The Congress of the United States, the legislative branch, is bicameral and consists of the Senate and the House of Representatives.
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 The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition: United States @ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The conterminous United States may be divided into seven broad physiographic divisions: from east to west, the Atlantic-Gulf Coastal Plain; the Appalachian Highlands; the Interior Plains; the Interior Highlands; the Rocky Mountain System; the Intermontane Region; and the Pacific Mountain System.
The attempts of the seceding states to take over federal property within their borders (notably Fort Sumter in Charleston, S.C.) precipitated the Civil War (1861-65), which resulted in a complete victory for the North and the end of all slavery.
Established as a world power with interests in two oceans, the United States intervened in the Panama revolution to facilitate construction of the Panama Canal ; this was but one of its many involvements in Latin American affairs under Theodore Roosevelt and later Presidents.
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 United States. The Columbia Gazetteer of North America. 2000
The Congress of the U.S., the legislative branch, is bicameral and consists of the Senate and the House of Representatives.
The attempt of the Greenback Party to combine sponsorship of free coinage of silver and other aids to the debtor class with planks favorable to labor had failed, but reform forces were gathering strength, as witnessed by the rise of the Populist Party.
level, progressivism triumphed in the states in legislation beneficial to labor, in the furthering of education, and in the democratization of electoral procedures.
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 Lalor, Cyclopaedia of Political Science, V.2, Entry 124, GREENBACK - LABOR: Library of Economics and Liberty
Greenback state tickets were nominated in most of the northern states, though they had little popular strength outside of the western states—III.
In some state elections, as in Massachusetts and Pennsylvania, the "labor reform" and "greenback" parties united, and the union was made national by the convention of Feb. 22, 1878, at Toledo, Ohio.
The platform renewed the former greenback platform, and added various resolutions in favor of the eight-hour law and the sanitary regulation of manufactories, and against Chinese immigration, land grants to railroads, and grants of special privileges to corporations and bondholders.
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 United States dollar
Thus the United States moved to a gold standard and made gold the sole legal tender coinage of the United States set the value of the dollar to $20.67 per ounce (66.46 cents per gram) of gold.
Critics also state that bills should employ braille codes to make the currency more usable by the vision impaired, since the denominations are all the same size, and cannot be distinguished from one another non-visually.
The name for the United States dollar comes from the Spanish dollar (which itself derived from the thaler) which was the silver coin widely circulated in the United States during the time of the American Revolutionary War.
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 MSN Encarta - Search Results - Greenback
Greenback, popular name for the paper currency issued by the federal government during the American Civil War to facilitate the payment of war...
Greenback Party, in United States history, a political party formed in 1875, chiefly by midwestern and southern farmers.
Greenback-Labor Party, in United States history, popular name for the National party, a political party organized in 1878 by workers and farmers as a...
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 MSN Encarta - People’s Party (United States)
People’s Party (United States) or Populist Party, political party active in the United States between 1891 and 1908, supported mainly by farmers in the South and West.
Founded during two conventions in 1891 and 1892, the party adopted a platform calling for free coinage of silver and the issuance of large amounts of paper currency—inflationary measures that it hoped would ease the financial burdens of the nation's debt-ridden farmers.
The party reunited in 1904, but by then its influence was declining, and it ceased to exist after the 1908 election.
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 Historical Background   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Throughout the 1800s, third parties had an influence on politics, and frequently showed their strength on the national level by winning electoral votes.
The Greenback Party, which lasted from roughly 1876 to 1884 had an early and important influence on this revival.
The party was also strongly anti-monopoly, and they viewed banks as their opposition.
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 Greenback - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Greenbacks, a colloquial term for the United States dollar, often used when referring to the debate of "hard vs. soft money" which originated after the Panic of 1873.
United States Greenback Party, who advocated inflation of the currency in the years after the American Civil War.
Save the Greenback, an organization of U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing employees and paper and ink suppliers opposed to phasing out the paper dollar
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 AllRefer.com - Greenback party (U.S. History) - Encyclopedia
Greenback party, in U.S. history, political organization formed in the years 1874–76 to promote currency expansion.
The Greenbackers had in 1874 hoped to capture the Democratic party, but the nomination of Samuel J. Tilden killed that hope, and the Greenback party nominated Peter Cooper as its own candidate for President in 1876.
The Greenbackers' hopes for 1880 were high, and bidding for wider support they broadened their program by endorsement of woman suffrage, federal regulation of interstate commerce, and a graduated income tax.
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 Greenback : eCorporations
Greenback is situated within ten miles of three TVA lakes; Tellico, Fort Loudoun and Watts Bar.
Greenback is located in what is known as the Lakeway to the Smokies, near four lakes and several rivers.
Greenback sits in the hills of eastern Tennessee, approximately 25 miles southwest of Knoxville...
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 List of political parties in the United States   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The United States has what is for all practical purposes a two-party system, with the two largest Political party dividing a great majority of the vote between themselves in most elections.
Still other groups call themselves political parties, but they have no candidates at all and merely use the term as a means to focus issue debate or to satirize the concept of political parties (and sometimes its difficult to determine which is which).
The second section is called Current third parties and it consists of those parties that have achieved (or, in the lead-up to an election, are reasonably expected to achieve) ballot status for their respective candidates for President of the United States in states with enough U.S. Electoral College to have a theoretical chance of winning.
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 Six Kinds of United States Paper Currency
United States Notes were the first permanent kind of federal paper money, the original "greenbacks." Previously, what the Treasury had issued in wartime were bonds and interest bearing notes.
Over time, United States Notes became an increasingly minor part of United States currency, and the large notes conservatively reflected designs of Civil War currency, as can still be seen in the Series 1917 $1 [reverse] and $2 [reverse].
But while the United States was never formally off the Gold Standard, Congress did respond to Free Silver forces with various laws for the Treasury to purchase and coin silver (as dollars, on the 1837 weight).
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 1874 - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
January 23 - Marriage of the Duke of Edinburgh, second son of Queen Victoria, to Grand Duchess Marie Alexandrovna of Russia, only daughter of Emperor Alexander III of Russia.
November 7 - A cartoon by Thomas Nast in Harper's Weekly, is considered the first important use of an elephant as a symbol for the United States Republican Party http://www.harpweek.com/09Cartoon/CartoonOfTheDay.asp?Year=2003?Month=November?Date=7.
November 25 - The United States Greenback Party is established as a political party made primarily of farmers financially hurt by the Panic of 1873.
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 ((i)) Centro de Média Independente - Portugal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
All of these were united by a search for something to believe in because of the anxiety of the time.
His state's power fashions political unity because, as he asserts, the national unity was always in place.
For von Treitschke, the state is artificially constructed by the elite who know that power counts, but who also form myths such as racism for the comfort of the nationalistic masses.
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 The Greenback Party
Simply stated, the agrarian and debtor interests wanted to keep the greenbacks in circulation and even urged that more be printed.
Despite its lack of success, the party made a last stab at the presidency, nominating Benjamin F. Butler in the Election of 1884.
The Greenback Party made an important contribution to American politics by demonstrating the monetary policy could and should be part of the national debate.
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 Greenback party
The Greenbackers had in 1874 hoped to capture the Democratic party, but the nomination of Samuel J. Tilden killed that hope, and the Greenback party nominated Peter
Populist party: Formation of the Party - Formation of the Party During the Panic of 1873 agricultural prices in the United States began to...
Gushing Greenbacks: Bribes and slush funds were just business as usual at French oil giant Elf, say executives now on trial.
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 Wikinfo | Populism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Some early left-wing populist parties directly fed into the later emergence of the Socialist movement, while other populist parties have taken on a more right-wing character and fed the careers of people widely viewed as demagogues, such as Father Charles Coughlin.
In recent years, conservative politicians have increasingly begun adopting populist rhetoric; for example, promising to "get big government off your backs", or to stand up to "the powerful trial lawyer lobby", "the liberal elite", or "the Hollywood elite".
Populism has also at times been adopted as a vehicle for extreme radicals; in 1984 the Populist Party name was revived but was used in 1988 as a vehicle for the Presidential campaign of former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke.
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 United States Dollar - Forex Trading, Currency Forecast, FX Trading Signal, Forex Training Course, Education, Tutorial, ...
In contrast to the currency notes of many other countries, all Federal Reserve notes are the same colors (fl with green highlights on the front, and green on the back), notwithstanding the recent introduction of a new $20 bill whose front includes text that is a gradient from blue to peach.
The greatest threat to the dollar would be the end of oil sales in dollars, either by oil producers agreeing to switch totally to the euro or partially.
It is no longer a matter of "if", but "when" as timing is important, otherwise a rapid collapse of the dollar could result in a world-wide economic disaster.
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 Learn more about 1874 in the online encyclopedia.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
November 7 - A cartoon by Thomas Nast in Harper's Weekly, is considered the first important use of an elephant as a symbol for the United States Republican Party [1].
March 29 - Lou Hoover, First Lady of the United States (+ 1944)
March 8 - Millard Fillmore, 13th President of the United States 1850-1853
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 1874 - Gurupedia
March 18 - Hawaii signs a treaty with the United States granting exclusive
United States Greenback Party is established as a
political party made primarily of farmers financially hurt by the
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 YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> os:1874   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
November 10 - John Ernst Worrell Keely demonstrates his "induction resonance motion motor" (later investigation reveals fraud behind another perpetual motion machine)
November 29 - Egas Moniz, Portuguese physician and neurologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d.
November 30 - Sir Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (d.
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 greenback - OneLook Dictionary Search
Greenback, greenback : UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
Phrases that include greenback: save the greenback, save the greenback act, united states greenback labor party
Words similar to greenback: banknote, bill, note, bank bill, banker's bill, bank note, buck, federal reserve note, government note, more...
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 Greenback - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Greenback_Party   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Hong Kong revises greenback peg to ward off buyers The Hong Kong dollar was pegged to the greenback in 1983, when the then British authorities sought to
Greenback Dollar collects the best of Ashley's recordings and presents them in excellent sound and a nice package
The greenback cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus clarki stomias) is native to the mountain For each greenback cutthroat trout population, we noted (1) the
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 AxisofLogic/ United States   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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 November 25 - Psychology Central   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
1874 - The United States Greenback Party is established as a political party consisting primarily of farmers affected by the Panic of 1873.
1876 - Indian Wars: In retaliation for the American defeat at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, United States Army troops sack Chief Dull Knife's sleeping Cheyenne village at the headwaters of the Powder River.
1950 - The ¨Storm of the Century¨, a violent snowstorm, paralyzes the northeastern United States and the Appalachians, bringing winds up to 100 mph and sub-zero temperatures.
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