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The Specie Payment Resumption Act of January 14, 1875 was a law in the United States that restored the nation to the gold standard through the redemption of previously unbacked United States Notes [1] and reversed inflationary government policies promoted directly after the American Civil War.
President Hayes began his address by highlighting the successful implementation of the Resumption Act of 1875, which had restored specie payments. He noted the economic revival following the stabilization of currency, with increased foreign demand for American goods and a reduction in the public debt.
The Greenbackers condemned the National Banking System, created by the National Banking Act of 1863, the harmonization of the silver dollar (Coinage Act of 1873 was in fact the "Crime of '73" to Greenback), and the Resumption Act of 1875, which mandated that the U.S. Treasury issue specie (coinage or "hard" currency) in exchange for greenback ...
In June 1874, Congress established a maximum for Greenback circulation of $382,000,000, and in January 1875, approved the Specie Payment Resumption Act, which authorized a reduction of the circulation of Greenbacks towards a revised limit of $300,000,000, and required the government to redeem them for gold, on demand, after January 1, 1879.
In 1873, the government passed the Fourth Coinage Act and soon resumed specie payments without the free and unlimited coinage of silver. This put the U.S. on a mono-metallic gold standard, angering the proponents of monetary silver, known as the silverites. They referred to this act as "The Crime of ’73", as it was judged to have inhibited ...
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June 22, 1874: Revised Statutes of the United States June 23, 1874: Poland Act, 18 Stat. 253 January 14, 1875: Specie Payment Resumption Act ch. 15, 18 Stat. 296 March 1, 1875: Civil Rights Act of 1875, (Butler-Sumner Act) 18 Stat. 335
Hard money policies support a specie standard, usually gold or silver, typically implemented with representative money. In 1836, when President Andrew Jackson 's veto of the recharter of the Second Bank of the United States took effect, he issued the Specie Circular , an executive order that all public lands had to be purchased with hard money.