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Harriet Tubman to replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 (1 Viewer)

Jackson really has some bad stuff in his history.

There will be regional "outrage"...especially here as I sit in Hermitage TN a few miles from his actual home.

Though, I doubt anyone will quit spending $20 over it.  

 
Since the man hated paper money I never understood why he was on the 20.  Glad they are keeping Hamilton given his role in our financial system.  

 
Jackson had panache. Tubman never looks happy.  Even on the 20....Jackson looks like he just spied someone doing something he didn't like out of the corner of his eye and is going over there to kick their ###.  Maybe...if they do a picture of Tubman smiling....I could go for it.....but our currency just got a little less tough today. 

 
Thunderlips said:
Jackson had panache. Tubman never looks happy.  Even on the 20....Jackson looks like he just spied someone doing something he didn't like out of the corner of his eye and is going over there to kick their ###.  Maybe...if they do a picture of Tubman smiling....I could go for it.....but our currency just got a little less tough today. 
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Make America's Currency Great Again!

 
My 3rd grader has had many books this year about the underground railroad.  Big player in American history.  Currently seems like overload to me but I am fine with it.  Time for a change.

I have recently heard more about Rosa Parks and that it was a grand FU moment people believe it was.  I think she as a part of a group movement did not move to the back of the bus multiple times and this was just the time she got arrested for it.

 
More nearly than any of his predecessors, Andrew Jackson was elected by popular vote; as President he sought to act as the direct representative of the common man.




Born in a backwoods settlement in the Carolinas in 1767, he received sporadic education. But in his late teens he read law for about two years, and he became an outstanding young lawyer in Tennessee. Fiercely jealous of his honor, he engaged in brawls, and in a duel killed a man who cast an unjustified slur on his wife Rachel.

Jackson prospered sufficiently to buy slaves and to build a mansion, the Hermitage, near Nashville. He was the first man elected from Tennessee to the House of Representatives, and he served briefly in the Senate. A major general in the War of 1812, Jackson became a national hero when he defeated the British at New Orleans.

In 1824 some state political factions rallied around Jackson; by 1828 enough had joined "Old Hickory" to win numerous state elections and control of the Federal administration in Washington.

In his first Annual Message to Congress, Jackson recommended eliminating the Electoral College. He also tried to democratize Federal officeholding. Already state machines were being built on patronage, and a New York Senator openly proclaimed "that to the victors belong the spoils. . . . "

Jackson took a milder view. Decrying officeholders who seemed to enjoy life tenure, he believed Government duties could be "so plain and simple" that offices should rotate among deserving applicants.

As national politics polarized around Jackson and his opposition, two parties grew out of the old Republican Party--the Democratic Republicans, or Democrats, adhering to Jackson; and the National Republicans, or Whigs, opposing him.

Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, and other Whig leaders proclaimed themselves defenders of popular liberties against the usurpation of Jackson. Hostile cartoonists portrayed him as King Andrew I.

Behind their accusations lay the fact that Jackson, unlike previous Presidents, did not defer to Congress in policy-making but used his power of the veto and his party leadership to assume command.

The greatest party battle centered around the Second Bank of the United States, a private corporation but virtually a Government-sponsored monopoly. When Jackson appeared hostile toward it, the Bank threw its power against him.

Clay and Webster, who had acted as attorneys for the Bank, led the fight for its recharter in Congress. "The bank," Jackson told Martin Van Buren, "is trying to kill me, but I will kill it!" Jackson, in vetoing the recharter bill, charged the Bank with undue economic privilege.

His views won approval from the American electorate; in 1832 he polled more than 56 percent of the popular vote and almost five times as many electoral votes as Clay.

Jackson met head-on the challenge of John C. Calhoun, leader of forces trying to rid themselves of a high protective tariff.

When South Carolina undertook to nullify the tariff, Jackson ordered armed forces to Charleston and privately threatened to hang Calhoun. Violence seemed imminent until Clay negotiated a compromise: tariffs were lowered and South Carolina dropped nullification.

In January of 1832, while the President was dining with friends at the White House, someone whispered to him that the Senate had rejected the nomination of Martin Van Buren as Minister to England. Jackson jumped to his feet and exclaimed, "By the Eternal! I'll smash them!" So he did. His favorite, Van Buren, became Vice President, and succeeded to the Presidency when "Old Hickory" retired to the Hermitage, where he died in June 1845.
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of course, that's just the whitehouse.gov page.

a bit less "friendly"





 




Indian-Killer Andrew Jackson Deserves Top Spot on List of Worst U.S. Presidents






Gale Courey Toensing/ICTMN Staff





2/20/12





This article was originally published on Presidents' Day 2012.

Unlike the statement in Indian Country Today Media Network’s “Best Presidents for Indian country” story, it’s a bit easier identifying the “worst” presidents for Indian country. Five tend to stand out with the majority of the rest huddled together after that. Here are our nods to the presidents who did more harm than good for Native Americans while in office.




Andrew Jackson: A man nicknamed “Indian killer” and “Sharp Knife” surely deserves the top spot on a list of worst U.S. Presidents. Andrew Jackson “was a forceful proponent of Indian removal,” according to PBS. Others have a less genteel way of describing the seventh president of the United States.

“Andrew Jackson was a wealthy slave owner and infamous Indian killer, gaining the nickname ‘Sharp Knife’ from the Cherokee,” writes Amargi on the website Unsettling America: Decolonization in Theory & Practice. “He was also the founder of the Democratic Party, demonstrating that genocide against indigenous people is a nonpartisan issue. His first effort at Indian fighting was waging a war against the Creeks. President Jefferson had appointed him to appropriate Creek and Cherokee lands. In his brutal military campaigns against Indians, Andrew Jackson recommended that troops systematically kill Indian women and children after massacres in order to complete the extermination. The Creeks lost 23 million acres of land in southern Georgia and central Alabama, paving the way for cotton plantation slavery. His frontier warfare and subsequent ‘negotiations’ opened up much of the southeast U.S. to settler colonialism.”

Jackson was not only a genocidal maniac against the Indigenous Peoples of the southwest, he was also racist against African peoples and a scofflaw who “violated nearly every standard of justice,” according to historian Bertram Wyatt-Brown. As a major general in 1818, Jackson invaded Spanish Florida chasing fugitive slaves who had escaped with the intent of returning them to their “owners,” and sparked the First Seminole War. During the conflict, Jackson captured two British men, Alexander George Arbuthnot and Robert C. Ambrister, who were living among the Seminoles. The Seminoles had resisted Jackson’s invasion of their land. One of the men had written about his support for the Seminoles’ land and treaty rights in letters found on a boat. Jackson used the “evidence” to accuse the men of “inciting” the Seminoles to “savage warfare” against the U.S. He convened a “special court martial” tribunal then had the men executed. “His actions were a study in flagrant disobedience, gross inequality and premeditated ruthlessness… he swept through Florida, crushed the Indians, executed Arbuthnot and Ambrister, and violated nearly every standard of justice,” Wyatt-Brown wrote.

In 1830, a year after he became president, Jackson signed a law that he had proposed – the Indian Removal Act – which legalized ethnic cleansing. Within seven years 46,000 indigenous people were removed from their homelands east of the Mississippi. Their removal gave 25 million acres of land “to white settlement and to slavery,” according to PBS. The area was home to the Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaw and Seminole nations. In the Trail of Tears alone, 4,000 Cherokee people died of cold, hunger, and disease on their way to the western lands.
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“The Supreme Court has made its judgement – now let the Supreme Court try to enforce it”.
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dino259 said:
My 3rd grader has had many books this year about the underground railroad.  Big player in American history.  Currently seems like overload to me but I am fine with it.  Time for a change.

I have recently heard more about Rosa Parks and that it was a grand FU moment people believe it was.  I think she as a part of a group movement did not move to the back of the bus multiple times and this was just the time she got arrested for it.
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https://www.legalzoom.com/articles/understanding-the-historical-impact-of-rosa-parks

 
How long before the first rap song referring to a $20 as a "Tub"?

 
sublimeone said:
do people really care about this kind of thing?
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that we're removing from one of the most commonly used bills the worst President, one who violated the law willfully and knowingly and committed genocide? 

Yeah, it's kind of a big deal.  Not that anyone thinks about the guy on the bill.

 
FUBAR said:
that we're removing from one of the most commonly used bills the worst President, one who violated the law willfully and knowingly and committed genocide? 

Yeah, it's kind of a big deal.  Not that anyone thinks about the guy on the bill.
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Pretty sure Harriet Tubman also violated the law willfully and knowingly. Didn't commit genocide, though, so she has that going for her.

 
Black Box said:
Pretty sure Harriet Tubman also violated the law willfully and knowingly. Didn't commit genocide, though, so she has that going for her.
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she did, but history now calls her a freedom fighter.  She sure seems like a much better person. 

 
Can't have any lawbreakers held in high regard in this country founded on subservience to authority.

 
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Glad this is happening.  Looking forward to the new bills.

From what I've read (uncertain if a decision has actually been made), I've seen stories that they want to put Jackson on the back of the 20.  Why not keep the White House and just remove Jackson completely?  Terrible President that hated money.  Let's just remove him completely and go about our lives.

 
Money is money. I think it'll be a temporary thing. Let the women have this one.

Kind of like when you let chicks beat you at pool to make happy. Sure sweetie, you can be on the 20 dollar bill.

 
Crap, does that mean I have to scrap the plans for my off broadway lyrical jazz play "Jackson"?  

 
There are going to be a lot of angry people today writing articles and blogs to tell you the reasons why this is so bad, when really, they are just racist.

 
shader said:
There are going to be a lot of angry people today writing articles and blogs to tell you the reasons why this is so bad, when really, they are just racist.
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So you are deeming people racists for something that hasn't even happened and if it does, before you even read their reasoning? Seems pretty bright.  

 
shader said:
There are going to be a lot of angry people today writing articles and blogs to tell you the reasons why this is so bad, when really, they are just racist.
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Guessing an Onion piece lacing these special little fellas up tight should be coming any minute now.

 
I'm just glad our government can spend resources on a worthwhile endeavor such as this instead of wasting funds on bridges, roads, etc.

 
People actually care about whose face is on money? As long as it spends, I couldnt care less.

 
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Shula-holic said:
I'm just glad our government can spend resources on a worthwhile endeavor such as this instead of wasting funds on bridges, roads, etc.
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How expensive is changing a picture?  

Heres an example of what I'm talking about.  Picture makes someone uncomfortable so they find a ridiculous excuse for why it's a bad idea.

 
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