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Hamilton Women's Rights

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Let Us Keep Our Ten Dollar Founding Father Women have always played an important part in American history, whether they’ve been recognized for their actions or not. From Deborah Sampson, who disguised herself as a man and fought in the Revolutionary war, to Hillary Clinton, the first woman to run for president, women have done great things for this country. Because of great women like this, the National Treasury is picking an influential woman to replace Alexander Hamilton on the ten dollar bill. The new bills are reported to be in circulation in time for the one hundredth anniversary of women gaining the right to vote. I believe that this is a huge step in women’s rights and it is high time a woman appeared on our currency. However, this …show more content…

During the Revolutionary War, he served as General Washington’s right hand man, writing Congress for supplies and convincing more people to help with the war effort. At the time he was only twenty-two. After the war he went back to New York and practiced law, quickly rising in status and influence. As it was decided that this country could not be sustained under the Articles of Confederation, the Continental Congress was formed, to which Hamilton was elected the New York junior delegate. “In 1786 he played the leading role in the convention at Annapolis, which prepared the way for the great Constitutional Convention that met at Philadelphia in 1787” (Rodger). His ideas and words were powerful among the framers of the Constitution. Even after the Constitution was written people were not sure if this document truly created the government they wanted. Without Hamilton’s brilliant turn of phrase, the US Constitution as we know it may never have been ratified. Hamilton led James Madison and John Jay in writing the Federalist papers defending the document to the public, writing fifty-one of the eighty-five essays himself. “He [was also] leader of the Federalist Party until his death,” a party that was created to form the style of government that still rules this country today; a system …show more content…

This act allowed him to take the land from Native Americans east of the Mississippi River and move them to designated Indian territories. This led to the forcible relocation of nearly 100,000 Native Americans. If that was not enough, nearly one third of those relocated died along the trail, later tragically nicknamed the Trail of Tears (“Indian Removal Act”). Is a man that would sign into law an act removing that many Americans from their homes a man worthy of the honor of being on the U.S. currency? The worst of it is almost not that the act was brought into existence in the first place, but what happened two years later. The act produced outrage, especially within the Cherokee people. To the highest authority of justice they could, “successfully [challenging] the removal laws in the US Supreme Court in 1832, but the ruling was ignored by President Andrew Jackson” (“Indian Removal Act”). That’s right. The Supreme Court ruled that the Cherokee people could keep their land and President Andrew Jackson refused to enforce the

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