History of American Banking

  • The nation has no medium of exchange, federalist and ant-federalist disagree about being a banking system.

    The nation has no medium of exchange, federalist and ant-federalist disagree about being a banking system.
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    History of American Banking

  • The first bank of the United Staets was established

  • Second bank of the United States reastablish stability

  • 1820's-1860's President Jackson vetoes recharter of second bank in 1832, giving rise to the free banking era

  • 1861-63, Civil war makes clear need better monetary to the banking system

  • 1863-64, National banking acts of 1863 and 1864 establish natinal banking system and uniform national currency

  • Great depression occured and affected the entire nation

  • President Roosevelt helps restore confidence in nations banks and establishes the FDIC

  • 1940's-60's, Period of government term stability

  • 1980's, Periods of deregulation, savings, loans, and face bankrupts.

  • 2000's, in 2007, a result of subprime montase crisis and is a sharp increase in the number of people who lose their homes because they cant pay their mortage. Worst economic crisis since world war 2.