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- noun Plural form of
Greenbacker .
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At the same time, some leaders in the movement, no doubt emboldened by this success, launched in 1876 a new political party, popularly known as the Greenbackers, favoring a continued re-issue of the legal tenders.
History of the United States Mary Ritter Beard 1917
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For various reasons some of the negroes, especially the ex-politicians from Louisiana and Mississippi, were dissatisfied with the "lily white" policy of the white Republicans, and their restlessness invited an attempt by the "Greenbackers" to capture the organization of the "Links."
"Pap" Singleton, The Moses of the Colored Exodus Walter Lynwood 1909
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"Greenbackers," regarding the American debt, some years since.] [Footnote 17: "Moniteur," August 29, 1790.] [Footnote 18: See Lacretelle, "18me Siécle," vol. viii, pp. 84-87; also
Fiat Money Inflation in France Andrew Dickson White 1875
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For more than half a century after the original populists fell apart around 1900, their name was consigned to the dust bin of history, along with other forgotten third-party movements like the Free-Soilers and the Greenbackers.
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-- Greenbackers called scarcity a drawback letting governments condone "dishonest" money through fractional reserve banking; they'd be harmed too many previous times not to know it; also, during the 1850s Gold Rush, its supply and consumer prices rose sharply, did again from 1917 - 1920, and during the 1970s when gold rose from $40 an ounce to $800 and inflation along with it.
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Hitler, however, diverged from the Greenbackers by equating bankers with Jews and launching a reign of terror against them.
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Greenbackers knew the real enemy - private bankers imposing debt bondage with onerous terms.
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The dynamic Alliance drew into its ranks Grangers, Greenbackers, Single Taxers—all the voices of dissent in the West.
THE AMERICAN WEST DEE BROWN 2007
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These Greenbackers demanded "that all obligations of the government, not payable by their express terms in coin, ought to be paid in lawful money," and through them the Ohio heresy became the ruling thought of the Democratic creed.
A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3 DeAlva Stanwood Alexander
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Republican congressmen, returning from Washington, told how their party held Greenback views and why Greenbackers ought to support it.
A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3 DeAlva Stanwood Alexander
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