banks so they could lend money to businesses to stimulate economic activity
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Define the Reconstruction Finance Corporation?
by giving government loans to businesses and banks
it authorized loans during the Great depression
To finance colonies, merchants formed joint stock trading companies, that allowed them to pool resources and share risks. These were the earliest form of corporation. The ventures were high risk, but had the possibility of paying off very well and quickly.
The federal government the Civil War in a variety of ways. The first was by the Morrill Tariff, which easily passed in Congress due to the main critics of tariffs, the southerners, no longer coming to Congress. Greenbacks were published and immediately released in 1862, to help finance the war. The government also issued bonds as a revenue generator.