Author Question: In the Gilded Age, hard money policies were reflected in a. the Resumption Act of 1875. b. ... (Read 51 times)

jake · **on:** Jul 4, 2018

In the Gilded Age, hard money policies were reflected in

a. the Resumption Act of 1875.
b. Congress formally dropping the coinage of silver dollars in 1873, the Crime of '73.
c. Grant's veto of a bill to print more paper currency at the behest of creditors.
d. the monetary policy of the Greenback Labor party.
e. the demand for more coinage of silver.

Question 2

Most, if not all, of the new state constitutions enacted in the 1780s

a. were written documents intended to represent a fundamental law, superior to ordinary statutory legislation.
b. lacked a specific bill of rights.
c. required the annual election of state legislators.
d. granted the state legislatures more power than governors.
e. created weak executive and judicial branches.