Should Elizabeth Cady Stanton Replace Andrew Jackson

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I believe that Elizabeth Cady Stanton should replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill. I think that she would be a better representative of the reform spirit of that time period. As President, Andrew Jackson dismantled the second Bank of the United States, and restricted the use of paper money. Why should a man who hated paper money and led to the unemployment of thousands have the honor of being on the $20 bill? Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a suffragist, activist and key leader of the women’s rights movement. Born in 1815, Stanton was very lucky and received a proper education in contrast to most women in that era. She developed an interest in the temperance movement, and eventually met her partner ,Lucretia Mott, at the World’s Anti-Slavery

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