By the Time of the Civil War, the U

question 106

Multiple Choice

By the time of the Civil War, the U.S. banking system operated

• A) as an efficient model that many other countries copied.
• B) under the control of the first Federal Reserve System.
• C) inefficiently with different banks issuing different types of currencies.
• D) much the same as it does today.

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