- During Free Banking Era, more than 300,000 different types of currency were in circulation.
- There were no banks that operated in the Republic of Texas.
- The $1 silver certificate from 1891 features a portrait of Martha Washington , making it the only U.S. paper currency to bear the portrait of a woman.
- The U.S. Congress granted a 1791 year charter to the First Bank of the United States.
- Henry Clay opposed the First Bank of the U.S.
- Alexander Hamilton supported the First Bank of the U.S.
- Andrew Jackson supported the second Bank of the U.S.
- Thomas Jefferson opposed the Second Bank of the U.S.
- In 1862, notes were issued and were not backed by coin.
- During his speech at the Democratic Convention in 1896, William argued for an expansion of money and credit.
- Woodrow Wilson signed the Federal Reserve Act on 1913.
- In 1944, the U.S. dollar was selected as the world's reserve currency at the Bretton woods conference in New Hampshire.
- In the Hunmphy Hawkins Act, along with an amendment to the Federal Reserve Act, established the established the economics goals for the Federal Reserve's monetary policy.
- In 1980, inflation peaked at 13%.
- The president of the federal Reserve Bank of Dallas is Robert Steven Kaplan.