Why should a man who forced 15,000 Native Americans to walk hundreds of miles over many months be on our 20 dollar bill? Why would we want a man who put our country into an economic crisis on one of our own pieces of currency for us to see and be reminded of daily? Andrew Jackson, the seventh president of the United States, did not do a very good job leading our country. Andrew Jackson’s presidency began on a poor note when he fired old government workers and replaced them with his own supporters. This is known as the spoils system. It was unfair to the workers who worked really hard to get those jobs, only to lose them because the new president did not know them. Also, many of these supporters Jackson hired were not very qualified
