In the Gilded Age, Hard Money Policies Were Reflected in

question 59

Multiple Choice

In the Gilded Age, hard money policies were reflected in

• A) the Resumption Act of 1875.
• B) Congress formally dropping the coinage of silver dollars in 1873, the "Crime of '73."
• C) Grant's veto of a bill to print more paper currency at the behest of creditors.
• D) the monetary policy of the Greenback Labor party.
• E) the demand for more coinage of silver.

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