Console yourself with the Drunk History segment about Harriet Tubman leading an army of bad bitches on the Combahee River Raid and freeing over 750 slaves in a single night:
I don't think it would have mattered who won. The Treaty of Ghent was signed a couple of weeks before the US victory at New Orleans. It made a catchy little song, though.
No no no no no. Whatever his faults, Jackson was a man of courage, honor, and personal integrity. And if you deny that, his ghost will demand to meet you out in a field at sunrise - your choice of weapons.
Hoaky, let me draw on my vast though superficial knowledge of history, and perhaps you can tell me where I’ve gone wrong, but I don't see the Trail of Tears as something that justifies doing that to Jackson.
In the early 1800s, Spain got control of the Florida territory back from the Brits, but they still didn’t have that much control over it. So they couldn’t stop Americans from moving in and settling there. Nor could they keep escaped slaves from joining the local native tribes,and getting their protection. Naturally, the settlers complained to the federal gov’t about a) not being able to recover their lost property, and b) all these natives “trespassing” on the land that they had moved in on without anyone’s permission.
General Jackson led an army into Florida – the First Seminole War – to pacify the locals, make sure the Brits weren’t going to incite the natives into causing trouble for the US, and show them all who was boss. He got carried away with his pacification, but no one said much because Spain wound up giving Florida to the US.
Twenty years or so later, and Jackson is president. Gold is found in Cherokee lands in South Carolina, and settlers in Florida are complaining (again) about their property escaping to join the local tribes, and those local tribes “trespassing” on their land and otherwise being annoying.
Congress passed the Indian Removal Act in 1830, which basically told the relevant tribes that they had better move to lands set aside for them on the other side of the Mississippi. If they hadn’t moved out by a certain date, the Army would make sure they went. Jackson signed it.
Some – but not all – of the Cherokee saw the writing on the wall and moved out. Same thing for the tribes in Florida – except the Seminole, who told the US where to shove it. The Second Seminole War began. When it was over, the Seminole had begrudgingly won the right to stay in Florida.
Meanwhile, those of the Cherokee who had stayed behind found their time had run out. In 1838 (AFTER Jackson had left office), federal forces and local state militias forcibly evicted them. That became what is generally referred to as the “genocide” part of the Trail of Tears.
For more info, read the Wikipedia article on the Trail of Tears.
If it could have been done in time to mark the centennial of the 19th Amendment that gave women the right to vote, I'd have preferred Alice Paul on the $20 because she, more than any other individual, was responsible for its passage and ratification. And she continued to fight for women's rights and causes up until she suffered a debilitating stroke.....in 1974.
Badass is an understatement with reference to Tubman. I've read that while she guided parties of escaping slaves north to Canada, men in the group sometimes lost their resolve and wanted to turn back. She would respond to that by unlimbering a pistol nearly as big as she was and saying grimly, "You are not going to endanger these people and get them caught again. You are going to keep right on following the Big Dipper north or I am going to go so Dirty Harriet on you that some blasted fragments of your ass will land in the Mare Imbrium."Or words more or less to that effect.I also recommend Balogun Ojetade's steampunk alternate history fantasy "Moses: The Chronicles of Harriet Tubman." It's pretty much "The Wild Wild West" meets "Amistad" and hugely entertaining. Besides a super-powered version of Harriet Tubman it features Stagecoach Mary Fields.
"nobody forced vending machines to accept them, so most don't"Is that still true? The ones I use take dollar coins. At work, the change machine dispenses dollar coins.
The president dollar coins being produced now are easy to tell from quarters. They are the same color as the Sacagawea dollar, larger, with a mostly smooth rim - there are a half-dozen to dozen thin cuts spaced around the rim.
I never use heroine (ISWIDT), and shero is just twee. The word originates from Hera, and Harriet was a Hera. Trump only wishes he were Jackson, but Trump is the consummate coward.
Why does the US advertise itself on its money with politicians and generals? Why not poets and artists and scientists? Make American Money Great Again!
I don't think she'll get an invitation to Mnuchkin's next wedding, though.
Console yourself with the Drunk History segment about Harriet Tubman leading an army of bad bitches on the Combahee River Raid and freeing over 750 slaves in a single night:
https://www.youtube.com/wat...
Oliver Cromwell much?
I don't think it would have mattered who won. The Treaty of Ghent was signed a couple of weeks before the US victory at New Orleans. It made a catchy little song, though.
We could introduce him to the phenomenon. And leave him there.
No no no no no. Whatever his faults, Jackson was a man of courage, honor, and personal integrity. And if you deny that, his ghost will demand to meet you out in a field at sunrise - your choice of weapons.
Hoaky, let me draw on my vast though superficial knowledge of history, and perhaps you can tell me where I’ve gone wrong, but I don't see the Trail of Tears as something that justifies doing that to Jackson.
In the early 1800s, Spain got control of the Florida territory back from the Brits, but they still didn’t have that much control over it. So they couldn’t stop Americans from moving in and settling there. Nor could they keep escaped slaves from joining the local native tribes,and getting their protection. Naturally, the settlers complained to the federal gov’t about a) not being able to recover their lost property, and b) all these natives “trespassing” on the land that they had moved in on without anyone’s permission.
General Jackson led an army into Florida – the First Seminole War – to pacify the locals, make sure the Brits weren’t going to incite the natives into causing trouble for the US, and show them all who was boss. He got carried away with his pacification, but no one said much because Spain wound up giving Florida to the US.
Twenty years or so later, and Jackson is president. Gold is found in Cherokee lands in South Carolina, and settlers in Florida are complaining (again) about their property escaping to join the local tribes, and those local tribes “trespassing” on their land and otherwise being annoying.
Congress passed the Indian Removal Act in 1830, which basically told the relevant tribes that they had better move to lands set aside for them on the other side of the Mississippi. If they hadn’t moved out by a certain date, the Army would make sure they went. Jackson signed it.
Some – but not all – of the Cherokee saw the writing on the wall and moved out. Same thing for the tribes in Florida – except the Seminole, who told the US where to shove it. The Second Seminole War began. When it was over, the Seminole had begrudgingly won the right to stay in Florida.
Meanwhile, those of the Cherokee who had stayed behind found their time had run out. In 1838 (AFTER Jackson had left office), federal forces and local state militias forcibly evicted them. That became what is generally referred to as the “genocide” part of the Trail of Tears.
For more info, read the Wikipedia article on the Trail of Tears.
If it could have been done in time to mark the centennial of the 19th Amendment that gave women the right to vote, I'd have preferred Alice Paul on the $20 because she, more than any other individual, was responsible for its passage and ratification. And she continued to fight for women's rights and causes up until she suffered a debilitating stroke.....in 1974.
Badass is an understatement with reference to Tubman. I've read that while she guided parties of escaping slaves north to Canada, men in the group sometimes lost their resolve and wanted to turn back. She would respond to that by unlimbering a pistol nearly as big as she was and saying grimly, "You are not going to endanger these people and get them caught again. You are going to keep right on following the Big Dipper north or I am going to go so Dirty Harriet on you that some blasted fragments of your ass will land in the Mare Imbrium."Or words more or less to that effect.I also recommend Balogun Ojetade's steampunk alternate history fantasy "Moses: The Chronicles of Harriet Tubman." It's pretty much "The Wild Wild West" meets "Amistad" and hugely entertaining. Besides a super-powered version of Harriet Tubman it features Stagecoach Mary Fields.
I loved that bit.
can we please get the man who orchestrated the trail of tears off our money?
"nobody forced vending machines to accept them, so most don't"Is that still true? The ones I use take dollar coins. At work, the change machine dispenses dollar coins.
The president dollar coins being produced now are easy to tell from quarters. They are the same color as the Sacagawea dollar, larger, with a mostly smooth rim - there are a half-dozen to dozen thin cuts spaced around the rim.
Because we're "special".
I never use heroine (ISWIDT), and shero is just twee. The word originates from Hera, and Harriet was a Hera. Trump only wishes he were Jackson, but Trump is the consummate coward.
Truth.
Why does the US advertise itself on its money with politicians and generals? Why not poets and artists and scientists? Make American Money Great Again!