In eighteen ninety, when the Silver Purchase Act was passed, the government held almost two hundred ninety million dollars in gold.

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All of them produced large amounts of paper money -- many times the amount they could exchange for gold or silver.

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The Treasury Department would buy the silver with new paper money that could be exchanged for silver or gold.

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The great wealth taken from the gold and silver mines was usually invested in other businesses: shipping,railroads,factories, stores,land companies.

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Everyone wanted gold. They took their paper money and their silver to the government and exchanged them for gold.

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In the United States in the early eighteen hundreds, fifteen ounces of silver had the same value as one ounce of gold.

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He noted how people throughout the nation had been exchanging their paper money and silver for gold.

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The government would pay for the silver with paper money -- treasury notes -- which could be exchanged for gold or silver money.

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At that time, both gold and silver were used to support the value of the American dollar.

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The debate over gold and silver was especially important because of an economic depression that began in the United States in eighteen ninety-three.

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That it was necessary to stop - for a while - all payments in gold or silver.

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The extra gold increased the supply of money in the same way silver would have increased it.

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Many other Americans wanted the United States to support its money with both gold and silver.

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Bryan said the United States should continue to make and use both gold and silver money.

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In the spring of 1837, the demand on banks for gold and silver grew too heavy.

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For many years, the United States and other nations used both gold and silver as money.

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Land was almost free. Some people wanted to find gold or silver and become rich.

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New discoveries of gold and silver now were leading men to Colorado, Arizona and Nevada.

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Should the United States support its currency with gold or with gold and silver?

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To stop this, President Jackson ordered gold or silver payments only for government land.

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The Republican Party also was divided over the issue of gold and silver.

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