One of the Important reasons for the 1836 Specie Circular was the uncontrolled land speculation in the West. Real estate speculation was funded by increased availability of credit from the Second Bank of the United States and new, reckless frontier banks
British Parliament implemented the Coercive Acts, known to the American colonists as the Intolerable Acts, to punish the residents of Boston for the Boston Tea Party and strengthen British control over Massachusetts. The British hoped to use strict martial law to isolate Boston and New England from the other colonies.
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