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- Free_silver abstract "Free silver was a major policy issue in late 19th century American politics. Its advocates were in favor of an inflationary monetary policy using the \"free coinage of silver\" as opposed to the deflationary gold standard. Its supporters were \"Silverites\". The Silverites promoted bimetallism, the use of both silver and gold as currency at the ratio of 16 to 1 (16 ounces of silver would be worth 1 ounce of gold). Because the actual value ratio was about 32 to 1 at the time, most economists warned that the cheaper silver would drive the more expensive gold out of circulation. Everyone agreed that free silver would raise prices; the question was whether or not this inflationary measure would be beneficial. The issue peaked from 1893 to 1896, when the economy was in a severe depression—called the Panic of 1893—characterized by falling prices (deflation), high unemployment in industrial areas, and severe distress for farmers.The debate pitted the pro-gold financial establishment of the Northeast, along with railroads, factories and businessmen, who were creditors who would benefit from disinflation (resulting from demand pressures on the relatively fixed gold money supply against a backdrop of unprecedented economic expansion), against poor farmers who would benefit from higher prices for their crops (resulting from the prospective expansion of the money supply by allowing silver to also circulate as money). Free silver was especially popular among farmers in the wheat belt (the western Midwest) and the cotton belts (the Deep South), as well as silver miners in the West. It had little support among farmers in the Northeast and the Corn Belt (the eastern Midwest). Free silver was the central issue for Democrats in the presidential election of 1896 and that of 1900, under the leadership of William Jennings Bryan. The Populists also endorsed Bryan and free silver in 1896, which marked the effective end of their independence. In major elections free silver was consistently defeated, and after 1896 the nation moved to the gold standard.The debate over silver lasted from the passage of the Fourth Coinage Act in 1873, which demonetized silver and was called the \"Crime of '73\" by opponents, until 1913, when the Federal Reserve Act completely overhauled the U.S. monetary system.".
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- Free_silver wikiPageWikiLinkText "Free silver".
- Free_silver wikiPageWikiLinkText "a monetary system based on silver".
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- Free_silver wikiPageWikiLinkText "inflationary proposals".
- Free_silver wikiPageWikiLinkText "monetary policy that allowed for money supply expansion".
- Free_silver wikiPageWikiLinkText "monetary reform".
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