Trivia 3-30-2020

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QUOTE="Trivia Master, post: 2207276, member: 6319"]
What financial bonanza befell the United states during Civil War?

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According to whom? One person's "bonanza" could be another's curse.
One can quickly list at least three financial successes:
selling government bonds (some as low as $50) to the public at large.; acceptance of Federally-issued currency ('Greenbacks'); successful implementation of the income tax.
By war's end:

The USA had financed about two-thirds of its $3.4 billion in direct costs by selling bonds.
Approximately $450 million worth of this new national currency was circulating throughout the Union.
Revenue from the income tax increased to $20 million in fiscal 1864 and $32 million in fiscal 1865.
<Michael A Martorelli, "Financing the Civil War", Essential Civil War Curriculum. https://www.essentialcivilwarcurriculum.com/>
At the same time, some historians point to the financial boom fueled by the clandestine trade between North and South.

Business in New England textile mills "was better than ever," according to textile mogul Amos Lawrence.
Sherman claimed the rebels he was fighting were supplied with weapons from Cincinnati.
A factor in Lee's successful defense of Richmond was the number of supplies he received through US held Norfolk.
<Philip Leigh, Trading with the Enemy: The Covert Economy During the American Civil War. (Yardley, PA: Westholme Publishing, 2014).>
 
Apparently, gold was discovered in Montana Territory, which consequently bolstered up the treasury.

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