A background ide of the Crusades to get you to make a journal. The Crusades were wars between Christians and Muslims over
control of the Holy Land. They were armies of
Christians from Western Europe that follows the order of Pope Urban II to go to
war against the Muslim to retake the Holy Land.
The correct answer is:
The decision by Congress in 1873 to stop buying and minting silver.
The Coinage Act of 1873, signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant, was a general reform of the laws associated with the Mint of the United States.
The act was later criticized by advocates of bimetallism as the "Crime of '73" because it ended bimetallism in the United States, by setting the nation on the gold standard.