Andrew Jackson paved the way for The Trail of Tears and was completely responsible for the deaths of thousands of Native Americans. At the beginning of the 1930’s, millions of acres of land were occupied by nearly 125,000 Native Americans. This land …show more content…
Jackson has been known for creating his life from scratch. Being “born two weeks after his father's death to a widowed immigrant mother”. He was raised in poverty and ultimately made it up to the highest position in the United States. (Keenan) But was he really a self-made man? He was a president who owned slaves and was a slave trader. He used his slaves to do his labor and they were the ones who collected much of his fortune. And later when he directed the Indian Removal Act, he used that stolen land to expand his cotton farming and slavery. By having Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill, we are honoring him and everything that comes with him. A historian once said that a human cannot possibly be a good person if he or she owns slaves. Having property over other human beings is nothing to admire from a person, especially from a national leader. (Andrew Jackson) Even though being a slave owner is apart of his private life, it is absolutely not a fact that should be left