Greenback Party

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The Greenback Party was a late 19th-century U.S. political party that advocated expanding paper money issuance to help farmers and workers and opposed the gold standard.

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instanceOf defunct political party
political party
activeInPeriod late 19th century
advocatedFor better conditions for workers
inflationary monetary policy
relief for indebted farmers
aimedTo help farmers
help industrial workers
alsoKnownAs Greenback Labor Party
linked to: Greenback Party

National Greenback Party
linked to: Greenback Party
color green
corePolicy increased circulation of unbacked paper currency
opposition to contraction of the money supply
regulation in favor of debtors over creditors
country United States
dissolved 1889
electoralType third party in the United States
founded 1874
hadVoterBaseIn Midwestern United States
Southern United States
headquartersLocation United States
historicalEra Gilded Age
ideology agrarianism
laborism
monetary reform
influenced Populist Party
linked to: Greenback Party

later monetary reform movements
issueFocus agrarian reform
labor rights
monetary policy
nominated James B. Weaver
Peter Cooper
opposed conservative financial interests
gold standard
opposedPolicy resumption of specie payments
originatedFrom post-Civil War economic discontent
participatedIn United States presidential election of 1876
United States presidential election of 1880
politicalPositionOnCurrency fiat money
position left-wing
representedInterest rural laborers
small farmers
urban workers
succeededBy People's Party
supported expansion of paper money
issuance of greenbacks
supportedPolicy continued use of Civil War greenbacks

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Benjamin F. Butler politicalParty Greenback Party
Benjamin F. Butler nominatedBy Greenback Party
Fusionist Republican–Populist coalition includes Populist Party (People's Party)
linked to: Greenback Party
1892 United States presidential election thirdParty Populist Party
linked to: Greenback Party
United States presidential election, 1896 alsoNominatedBy Populist Party
linked to: Greenback Party
United States presidential election, 1900 majorThirdParty Populist Party
linked to: Greenback Party
Greenback Party alsoKnownAs Greenback Labor Party
linked to: Greenback Party
Greenback Party alsoKnownAs National Greenback Party
linked to: Greenback Party
Greenback Party influenced Populist Party
linked to: Greenback Party
Free Silver movement supportedBy Populist Party
linked to: Greenback Party
Ira S. Haseltine memberOfPoliticalParty Greenback Party
Peter Cooper memberOfPoliticalParty Greenback Party