Banking History

• Banking History: Colonial Era
  • Gold, Goldsmiths, Fractional Reserve Banking
  • Colonial Era
    • Word Origins—Dollars, Bucks, Quarters, and Bits
• The First and Second Banks of the United States
  • Bank of North America
  • Bank of the United States
  • Second Bank of the United States (B.U.S.)
    • The End of BUS
• Free Banking and the National Banking Act of 1863
  • The National Banking Acts of 1863, 1864, and 1865
  • Correspondent Banking
  • The National Banking System Couldn't Control the Money Supply
• Financial Panics and Bank Runs Before Deposit Insurance
  • Bank Runs
  • Booms and Busts
  • Lender of Last Resort and Deposit Insurance End Bank Runs