• The 1868-1869 North Carolina railroad bonds scandal took place in the U.S. state of North Carolina after Milton S. Littlefield and George W. Swepson defrauded...
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  • Milton S. Littlefield (category Military personnel from North Carolina)
    Florida Railroad lines, as well as suits involving Calvin Littlefield, who filed to have the bonds given over to him. 1868 North Carolina railroad bonds scandal...
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    Crédit Mobilier scandal (French pronunciation: [kʁedi mɔbilje]) was a two-part fraud conducted from 1864 to 1867 by the Union Pacific Railroad and the Crédit...
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    silver. 1868 North Carolina railroad bonds scandal: Since before the American Civil War, the state had been trying to expand the Western North Carolina Railroad...
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  • George William Swepson (category North Carolina Republicans)
    politician and a swindler notable for his involvement in the 1868 North Carolina railroad bonds scandal. "George William Swepson (1819-1883)". Caswell County...
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  • Railroad was a railroad that operated in the state of Arkansas, United States, between 1853 and 1875. It came to national prominence when its bonds were...
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    First Southern Strategy. University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 0807816809. American Annual Cyclopedia ... 1868 (1869), online, highly detailed compendium...
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    sale of bonds of a railroad that most investors thought would never make a profit. The original UPRR was entangled in the Crédit Mobilier scandal, exposed...
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    complete the railroad through Kansas, as a result, the Union Pacific applied for federal assistance in the form of land grants and bonds. On June 1, 1871...
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    and force up the price of the metal on the New York Gold Exchange. The scandal took place during the Grant Presidency. The Secretary of the Treasury,...
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    suffered many scandals, leading to a continuous reshuffling of officials. Grant, ever trusting of his chosen associates, had strong bonds of loyalty to...
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    University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 978-0-8078-4909-5.[page needed] Bain, David (2000). Empire express: Building the first transcontinental railroad. New...
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    Bureau's Health-care Activities During Reconstruction in North Carolina, 1865–1868," North Carolina Historical Review 2002 79(2): 141–181. ISSN 0029-2494...
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  • stores (such as masts and turpentine). The Province of Carolina was split into North and South Carolina in 1712. Pushing back the Native Americans in the Yamasee...
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    Reconstruction era (category 1860s in North Carolina)
    and the Politics of War and Reconstruction, 1861–1868. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 978-0807819661. Suryanarayan, Pavithra...
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    Grant and the Politics of War and Reconstruction, 1861-1868. The University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 978-0807819661. Wilson, Edmund (1962). "Northern...
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    bonds issued by railroad companies. The failure of Jay Cooke & Co., heavily invested in railroad bonds, triggered a crisis in the railroad industry. In 1877...
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  • North Memphis Savings Bank the following year and converted its offices into a third branch. In 1924 Union and Planters experienced a major scandal involving...
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    the source of scandals in the administration. All of the old railroad and infrastructure bonds, including the controversial Holford bonds which had already...
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  • editorials. In 1866, a book entitled The Last Ninety Days of the War in North Carolina, by Cornelia Phillips Spencer, was published offering opinions of work...
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  • mounting pressure from scandals ahead of midterms". npr.org. Myah Ward (May 17, 2022). "Cawthorn loses primary in North Carolina". politico.com. Schnell...
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    environment and made money off various schemes, including bonds and financing for railroads. White Southerners who supported Reconstruction policies and...
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    Mobilier of America scandal involved corruption in the financing of the Union Pacific Railroad, part of the transcontinental railroad which was completed...
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    of its charter, the Freedman's Bank invested in the bonds of the Union Pacific and Central Railroads, made as early as 1869.: 145 : 154  A series of increasingly...
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    tariffs, bonds, income and excise taxes, national banks, suppression of money issued by state banks, greenback currency, and western railroad land grants...
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    end to contraction, which Congress ordered in January 1868. Meanwhile, the Treasury issued new bonds at a lower interest rate to refinance the redemption...
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    of New Orleans), Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia (except the forty-eight counties designated as West...
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    Mobilier of America scandal of the early 1870s, in which many members of Congress were bribed by the Crédit Mobilier corporation, a railroad construction company...
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  • reserves either via any federal surpluses or the issuance of government bonds. An established gold reserve allowed for daily variations in specie flows...
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    patriotic insurgency began to arise in support of the Cuban rebellion; war bonds were sold in the US to support the Cuban resistance. One of the US Cuban...
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