APUSH VOCAB
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US History [1]
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soft money - a contribution to a political party that is not accounted as going to a particular candidate, thus avoiding various legal limitations. The Greenback Party (also known as the Independent Party, the National Party, and the Greenback- Labor Party) [1] was an American political party with an anti-monopoly ideology[2] that was active between 1874 and 1884. Its name referred to paper money, or "greenbacks," that had been issued during the American Civil War and afterward. The party opposed the shift from paper money back to a bullion coin-based monetary system because it believed that privately owned banks and corporations would then reacquire the power to define the value of products and labor. It also condemned the use of militias and