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  • The Second Bank of the United States

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    The Second Bank of the United States. Photograph by: Beyond My Ken.

    In 1816, with James Monroe as president, Congress agreed to “charter a Second Bank for twenty years.” Daniel Walker Howe, What Hath God Wrought: Transformation of America, 1815-1848, 374.

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