GREENBACK PARTY
\ɡɹˈiːnbak pˈɑːti], \ɡɹˈiːnbak pˈɑːti], \ɡ_ɹ_ˈiː_n_b_a_k p_ˈɑː_t_i]\
Definitions of GREENBACK PARTY
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a former political party in the United States; organized in 1874; opposed any reduction in the amount of paper money in circulation
By Princeton University
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a former political party in the United States; organized in 1874; opposed any reduction in the amount of paper money in circulation
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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organized in a Greenback Convention at Indianapolis, November 25, 1874, which assembled to adopt resolutions opposing the specie resumption bill proposed at that time in Congress and passed January 14, 1875. The Greenback party platform advocated the withdrawal of all national and State bank currency, and the substitution therefor of paper currency issued by the Government, and that coin should only be used in payment of interest on the national debt. The Greenback Presidential candidate in 1876, Peter Cooper, of New York, received 81,740 votes, chiefly from the Western States.
By John Franklin Jameson
