- The
Silverites were
members of a
political movement in the
United States in the late-19th
century that
advocated that
silver should continue to be a monetary...
- a
bimetallic money system making use of both
silver and gold,
called "
Silverites",
sought coinage of
silver dollars at a
fixed weight ratio of 16-to-1...
- The
Silverites took
control of the legislature, ****uring the
election of
William Stewart to the U.S. Senate. The
success of the
Nevada silverites spurred...
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money to help
their poorer constituents. In reply, one of the
foremost silverites,
Richard P. Bland,
introduced a bill in 1886 that
would require the government...
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multipartisan basis. A
Silverite,
Lemuel Allen, was
elected Speaker, and the
Democrats and
Populists sided with the
Silverites to
organize the chamber...
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currency "Financial Dictionary".
Retrieved 26 July 2015. Gevinson, Alan.
Silverites, Populists, and the
Movement for Free Silver. Teachinghistory.org, accessed...
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during the
American Civil War, the Redeemers,
Bourbon Democrats, and
Silverites in the late-19th century, and the
Southern Democrats and New Deal Democrats...
- not
increase as
quickly as the po****tion, the
result was deflation.
Silverites, who
wanted more
money in
circulation to
raise the
prices farmers received...
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rural Democrats wanted silver,
especially in the
South and West. The
silverites took
control of the 1896
Democratic National Convention and
chose William...
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established major parties and the "
Silverites," who
generally disregarded the
Omaha Platform in
favor of bimetallism.
These Silverites, who
formed groups like the...
