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12h 5min, sep 1, 1764 y - Currency Act

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Required colonial assemblies to stop issuing paper money
Retired all paper money in circulation
The point was to pay off some debt from the war
Sought to protect British merchants from inflated paper money.
Colonists resented the act.

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12h 5min, sep 1, 1764 y
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~ 261 years ago

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