Greenback party
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a former political party, organized in 1874, opposed to the retirement or reduction of greenbacks and favoring their increase as the only paper currency.
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Greenback Partynounhistory a political party formed after the Civil War advocating the use of fiat money and opposing the reduction of paper currency
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It didn't make any difference what the Greenback party, or the Republican and Democratic parties, or the Communists were croaking about; the immense harvests of the West indicated that nothing was the matter.
From T. De Witt Talmage As I Knew Him by T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt) Talmage
A Greenback party was formed, which called for the repeal of the Specie Payment Act and for the issue of more greenbacks.
From A Brief History of the United States by John Bach McMaster
The Greenback party polled 81,740 votes, the Prohibition 9,522, and the American 2,636, none gaining an electoral vote.
From The Greater Republic A History of the United States by Charles Morris
Believing that their ills were due to the scarcity of money, they opposed the policy of contraction and even launched the Greenback party to carry out their principles.
From The United States Since the Civil War by Charles Ramsdell Lingley
The Greenback party, as it was called, grew out of this policy of contraction, and for a time threatened to carry the election of a majority of the Members of Congress.
From Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography. by John Sherman
After the war, he failed to win public office and joined the nascent Greenback Party, which demanded a greater money supply, expanded business regulations, and more progressive labor policies.
From Slate ● Jul. 3, 2023
As for the Greenback Party, when only seven delegates appeared at an 1888 national convention of the group, the party faded from existence.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 30, 2014
In 1876 he ran for president as the 85 year-old candidate of the Greenback Party.
From New York Times ● Jul. 25, 2014
Four years ago Mrs. Milburn joined the Greenback Party, which advocates the withdrawal of all gold and silver certificates, substitution of paper money backed not by bullion but by "faith."
From Time Magazine Archive
This practically settled the question of Currency Contraction, although the Greenback Party, created by this agitation, was in existence until the resumption of specie payments in 1879.
From A History of the Republican Party by George Washington Platt
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