The subject of a notable Williams Jennings Bryan speech, this is, for 10 points, what economic entity in which a currency's value is fixed to a certain commodity similar to silver.
It was the basis of William McKinley's presidential campaign after the Panic of 1893, and both John P. Irish and John M. Palmer supported it. The Resumption Act was opposed by the Greenback Party because it returned America to this, and John Maynard Keynes's publication of The Economic Consequences of Mr. Churchill was followed by every major (*) currency getting off of it by the end of the Great Depression. The subject of a notable Williams Jennings Bryan speech, this is, for 10 points, what economic entity in which a currency's value is fixed to a certain commodity similar to silver.
It was the basis of William McKinley's presidential campaign after the Panic of 1893, and both John P. Irish and John M. Palmer supported it.
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