Part 8

17. What case decided the constitutionality of the bank?

18. Did the second United States Bank accomplish the purpose for which it was formed?

19. Why was the second United States Bank rechartered?

20. What is meant by "Wildcat Banking"?

21. What are the dates of our greatest panics?

22. What were the chief causes?

23. What was the effect on prices?

24. What on wages?

25. Under what President was the independent treasury first established?

26. Is it in existence to-day?

27. When were greenbacks issued?

28. To what amount?

29. Who was responsible for the issue?

30. Were they legal tender for private debts contracted before their issue?

31. When was the Resumption Act passed?

32. Are the greenbacks in circulation to-day?

33. What is free silver?

34. What was the "Crime of '73"?

35. What was the "Bland-Allison Act"?

36. What was the Currency Act of 1900?

37. What is Bimetallism?

38. What is meant by "Mint Ratio"?

39. What is meant by "Market Ratio"?

40. What is meant by "Free Coinage"?

41. What is meant by "Gratuitous Coinage"?

42. What is meant by "Standard Money"?

43. With the market ratio at 30 to 1 and the mint ratio at 16 to 1, which money would tend to disappear from circulation if both metals are freely coined and made full legal tender?

44. Why is silver not the standard to-day?