Classroom Lesson: Currency and the Fed
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- This 1862 article from the Merchants' Magazine reviews the early paper money of the United States
- "The Federal Reserve Act of 1913: History and Digest," a short 1914 book on the creation of the Federal Reserve.
- "Abraham Lincoln and the $5 Note," another classroom lesson on currency appropriate for middle grades
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