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The Specie Circular and Sales of Public Lands: A Comment

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The chronology of events in 1836 surrounding Jackson's Specie Circular and the Act to Regulate the Deposits of Public Money, under which the Federal fiscal surplus was distributed to the states, has never been much in dispute. The orthodox analysis of these events likewise has been almost universally accepted. The Specie Circular has been seen as a device that provoked an increase in the demand for hand-to-hand specie in the West where the public lands were being sold, at the same time that specie was needed in the East to effect the distribution of the surplus. The monetary system could not have its specie in two places at once, the argument has been, and the attempt to do so led to the disastrous breakdown of the banking system and to the ensuing business recession of 1837.

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  • Timberlake, Richard H., 1965. "The Specie Circular and Sales of Public Lands: A Comment," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 25(3), pages 414-416, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:jechis:v:25:y:1965:i:03:p:414-416_05
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