The Currency Act is the name of several Acts of the Parliament of Great Britain that regulated paper money issued by the colonies of British America. The Acts sought to protect British merchants and creditors from being paid in depreciated colonial currency . The policy created tension between the colonies and Great Britain, and was cited as a grievance by colonists early in the American Revolution.
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