Engraved to Be Trusted: teacher key

Money, grade 10 edition, written for 10th grade. From leaf prints on colonial notes to 57-ton presses, money is built to be hard to fake. Look at how bills are printed, checked and replaced, and who guards them.

Read the book. Print this page for the key.

Questions and answers

1. What is true of U.S. bill paper?
   • Any store may sell it
   • It is made for the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, and it is illegal for anyone else to have it (answer)
   • It is sold only in Texas
2. Why did Benjamin Franklin print notes with leaf prints?
   • To honor trees
   • To make them lighter
   • To make them harder to counterfeit (answer)
3. What does offset printing add in a bill's layers?
   • Background colors (answer)
   • The engraved layer
   • The 3-D ribbon
4. What happened in March 1933?
   • The euro was launched
   • The Federal Reserve Bank of New York could no longer swap currency for gold (answer)
   • Bills were first printed
5. What does the 2023 survey show about cash?
   • Cash stopped being used
   • Cash was the only way to pay
   • For small purchases of $25 or less, cash was no longer the most-used way to pay (answer)
6. What is true of counterfeit notes today?
   • The share is small, but new techniques keep appearing (answer)
   • They are a large share of money
   • They no longer exist

Words

• intaglio: engraved printing
• counterfeit: fake
• monopoly: sole control
• watermark: hidden paper picture
• inflation: rising prices