Harriet Tubman will replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill in 2020, the 100th anniversary of women’s right to vote. Jackson, who first appeared on the bill in 1928, advocated for the gold standard and forced Native Americans on the Trail of Tears. The $20 bill was once called a “double hacksaw” due to the X resembling a hacksaw.
In 2020, on the 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment giving women the right to vote, abolitionist heroine Harriet Tubman will replace Andrew Jackson on the front of the twenty dollar bill. Historians think Old Hickory would not mind being replaced, as he railed against paper money during his lifetime and advocated strict adherence to the gold standard, where the supply of dollars in circulation is tied to the physical amount of gold held by the government. Jackson first appeared on the $20 bill (also known as a “double hacksaw”) in 1928, which was the 100th anniversary of his election as president. His image replaced Grover Cleveland’s face on that year’s billboard. Cleveland’s portrait moved to the new $100 bill the same year.
XX marks the spot:
The twenty was called a “double hacksaw” because X, the Roman numeral for 10, looked like the legs of a hacksaw, a device for holding chopped wood. The term has since faded from the lexicon.
In 2013, the average circulation life of a $20 bill was 7.9 years.
As the seventh president of the United States, Jackson ordered the forcible relocation of thousands of Native Americans to what became known as the Trail of Tears.
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