Should Andrew Jackson be
on the Twenty-dollar Bill?

For this activity, it is the 1920s and the Treasury Department is trying to determine whether Andrew Jackson's portrait should be placed on the twenty-dollar bill. You are either a critic or supporter of Jackson, and you will write a letter to the Treasury Department to help it make up its mind.

Prepare a 2-minute speech that should praise or condemn specific policies and actions of Jackson. You will decide what to praise or condemn by considering the perspective of the individual or group you have been assigned to represent.

The roles include:

• Samuel Worcester & Native Americans 
• Henry Clay & the National Republican/Whig Party
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• Peggy Eaton, wife of Sec. of War John Eaton
• Chief Justice John Marshall
• John C. Calhoun & the South Carolina “Nullifiers”
• Nicholas Biddle
• Martin Van Buren & the Democratic Party
• The White Southern Farmer
• Frederick Douglass
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• The White Northern Business Owner
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• Chief John Ross
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• John Quincy Adams
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• Daniel Webster - Link
• A War of 1812 Veteran who fought at New Orleans
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• Mrs. Samuel Harrison Smith - Link