Title

Remembering the “Rag Baby”: Toledo and the Greenback-National Movement in the 1870s

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1995

Department/School

History and Philosophy

Abstract

Between 1874 and 1884, depression, public debt, and political corruption made Toledo, Ohio, a stronghold of support for the independent Greenback Party, which advocated an increase in the nation's supply of paper money to grease the wheels of the depressed economy, a platform that appealed to farmers, laborers, and middle-class professionals.

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