Being on any paper currency in the United states is a huge deal. And what does it mean to be on a bill? It means that everyone honors and admires that person for what they have done to change and shape the US. On a majority of the bills, a president’s face has made the appearance. The president of the United States is the top position in the Nation so it is reasonable why there are so many. They are supposed to be doing good things for the US but I believe Jackson has some not so admirable baggage. Jackson should be taken off the $20 bill because he has caused thousands of deaths within many groups of people, he was a slaveowner, and he wouldn't of even wanted to be on the bill in the first place.
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
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