1. Ohio Leaders in the Civil War
Wade pitted his strength against the President on issues of military strategy and restoration of the seceded states.# In 1861, Wade was a member of a group of politicians that witnessed the Battle of Bull Run. ... He had supported the Legal Tender Act of 1862 and the National Banking Act of 1863, but he opposed Secretary of the Treasury Hugh McCulloch's plan to retire the greenbacks in circulation and pushed a compromise plan for resuming specie payment.# John Sherman was responsible for the Sherman Anti-Trust Act in 1890. ... The act declared it illegal for any business to restrain tr...
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