The Haitian Revolution was also transformative on a global scale: it altered the geopolitics of empire in the Americas; threatened to disrupt the trans-Atlantic slave trade and plantation economy; precipitated a massive, global movement of refugees, and offered a powerful example of collective action, and hope of
The Specie Circular is a United States presidential executive order issued by President Andrew Jackson in 1836 in accordance with the Coinage Act. It required gold or silver payment for public lands.
