Effects Of Andrew Jackson On The $ 20 Bill

Sometimes, history has a way of turning the popular dead citizens into heroes or villains. Our seventh president is definitely known as the latter. However, for nearly a century, an image of this president has graced the $20 bill. Andrew Jackson was an unconstitutional president. He was born in 1767, on the South Carolina frontier. Andrew loved sports and was ill-tempered. At just 13 years old, Jackson joined the militia and was captured by the British. After the war, he decided to become a lawyer in North Carolina. Jackson should not be on the twenty dollar bill because he caused the Nullification Crisis, passed the Indian Removal Act, and created the spoils system.
To begin, Jackson caused the Nullification Crisis. The Congress passed a

This law allowed the federal government to pay the natives to move west. Most Native Americans accepted the payment for their lands and agreed to move, but the Cherokee nation refused. They took their case to the Supreme Court, and Chief Justice John Marshall decided that Georgia had no right to interfere with the Cherokees. Jackson disagreed with the Supreme Court’s ruling. The textbook states “ ‘John Marshall has made his decision,’ Jackson reportedly said. ‘Now let him enforce it.’ ” In 1838, acting on Jackson’s orders, General Winfield brought his army to move the Indians by force. The Trail of Tears is the path the Indians made west. At the same time, by passing this act, it was beneficial to white settlement up and down the eastern coast, and helped southerners expand southward. For this reason, it was good for the country and the future of the country’s future economy. Nevertheless, it still showed the political corruption of the government and increased the distrust of the Indians towards the federal government. To add on, laws became more complicated since the Indians had interracial marriage, and made Indians refuse to cooperate even more.
Lastly, Andrew Jackson created the spoils system. The spoils system is the practice of rewarding political supporters with government jobs. Jackson decided to replace Republican civil servants with “loyal and supportive Democrats”, even though the Republican civil servants wanted to have their jobs for life. This meant that the government had become a bureaucracy, a system in which non-elected officials carried out the laws. This is significant because it shows that Jackson had total control over the civil servants, Democrats and Republicans. If they didn’t follow Jackson’s orders, he would fire and replace