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Silver Purchase Act

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Silver Purchase Act: see Sherman Silver Purchase Act Sherman Silver Purchase Act, 1890, passed by the U.S. Congress to supplant the Bland-Allison Act of 1878. It not only required the U.S. government to purchase nearly twice as much silver as before, but also added substantially to the amount of money already in
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The first of many setbacks for the Rio Grande was the repeal of the Silver Purchase Act in 1893.
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