How Did Andrew Jackson Stay On The $ 20 Bill

Andrew Jackson should stay on the $20 bill because he was an average person just like us, he did not grow up with the best life but in the end he succeeded, and he was not the sole contributor to the trail of tears. Andrew Jackson was born on March 15, 1767, in the Waxhaw Settlement which ecompasses parts of North and South Carolina. The exact location of Jackson’s birthplace is unknown. Jackson is the only commander-in-chief whose exact birth location is unknown. His parents were Andrew and Elizabeth Hutchinson Jackson, Scots-Irish colonists who came to America in 1765 from Ireland. Jackson was born three weeks after his father died at age 29. Jackson grew up in poverty and only received an erratic education right before the revolutionary

Because he disobeyed, he received a gash on his left hand and a big slash on his face where a British officer struck him with his sword. As a result, he had a scar on his face for the rest of his life. A few days later Jackson’s mother was able to trade with the British to get her son back. Shortly after Jackson is freed his mother dies of cholera which she got from nursing sick and injured soldiers. Only at age 14, Andrew Jackson became an orphan. During the revolutionary war, Jackson lost his mother and 2 of his brothers. Because of this he starts to develop a hatred for the british because of all they did to his family. Jackson went to live with his uncles. He studied law in Salisbury, North Carolina in his late teens. Andrew Jackson has been a US Senator, a judge, a US President and a US Representative. Andrew Jackson fought as a general in the war of 1812 and lead troops during the last major engagement of the war. He was out numbered 10,000 british to 5000 patriots and won. (Biography.com) His troops gave him the nickname “Old Hickory.” because they thought of him as a firmly rooted hickory tree because of his toughness and

Every early president was a slave owner except for John Adams and his son John Quincy Adams. (Andrews) If we decide to not let him stay on the $20 bill because Jackson owned slaves then we should also remove every other president that owned slaves from our currency. He caused changes in the way we approve laws by giving presidents the power to veto a bill.

He was considered the poor man's president because he grown up in poverty and he was able to pull himself out of it and become a president of the United States. He shows that you can rise up from nothing and do great things. You cannot say that Andrew Jackson can be removed from the $20 dollar bill because he did the trail of tears. Andrew Jackson did not do it entirely. He did pass the Indian Removal act of 1830 but he did not fully remove them from their lands. Martin Van Buren, the president after Jackson, continued what Jackson started and truly enforced