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Chapters

1. Preface324 words
2. 1. History of American Currency301 words
3. Wampumpeag currency378 words
4. Barter Currency695 words
5. Distress168 words
6. New Industries185 words
7. Pine Tree Coinage637 words
8. The First Expedition539 words
9. Second Expedition172 words
10. Colman's Bank257 words
11. Loan Bank1,433 words
12. Banks168 words
13. The Land Bank192 words
14. The Specie Bank846 words
15. Expedition Against Louisbourg165 words
16. Resumption in Massachusetts501 words
17. Action of Connecticut214 words
18. Legal-Tende Paper Abolished239 words
19. Double Standard746 words
20. Continental Paper Money948 words
21. Bank of North America369 words
22. Renewed Agitation in Favor of Paper Money729 words
23. Assumption of the State Debts168 words
24. Banking on Convertible Currency362 words
25. Paper Money and the Federal Constitution253 words
26. First Bank of the US196 words
27. Coinage168 words
28. Bank issues in New England330 words
29. Bank Issues in the Middle States1,034 words
30. Suspension of 1814777 words
31. Second United States Bank155 words
32. Resumption321 words
33. Condition of the US Bank602 words
34. Crisis of 1819919 words
35. Crisis of 18251,354 words
36. Currency and Tariff as Political Issues696 words
37. War Between the Administration607 words
38. The Compromise Tariff338 words
39. Removal of the Deposits361 words
40. Distress of 1834193 words
41. Changes in the Coinage2,117 words
42. War with the Bank Continued360 words
43. Small Notes188 words
44. Railroad Building152 words
45. Speculation301 words
46. Affairs in England144 words
47. Cotton163 words
48. Bank Expansion1,607 words
49. Public Claims187 words
50. The Pennsylvania Bank2,319 words
51. Measures for Resumption588 words
52. Revival of Business182 words
53. The Bank Crash of 18391,343 words
54. Movements of Specie 1830-18401,234 words
55. Financial Measures 1840-18501,502 words
56. Period from 1850-1862151 words
57. Capital and Currency1,378 words
58. State of Affairs 1853466 words
59. Crisis of 18571,213 words
60. Alteration of the Coinage414 words
61. Current at the Outbreak of the War895 words
62. Suspension468 words
63. Legal Tender Act1,113 words
64. Effects of Legal Tender1,342 words
65. The Tariff201 words
66. Contraction or Inflation463 words
67. Paper Money with a Fixed Limit3,218 words
68. 2. The English Bank Restriction16,048 words
69. 3. Austrian Paper Money2,524 words
70. Conclusion1,674 words
71. Appendix25,698 words
72. About this edition64 words