Republican campaign poster of 1896 attacking Free Silver<span>. ... It became a central issue in the 1896 presidential election. But after the 1896 defeat of William Jennings Bryan, the Democratic presidential candidate who had </span>supported the Free Silver Movement<span>, the United States government adopted the gold standard.</span>
The first us police departments were created because of the need to control mob violence, which was common during the nineteenth century. this is false