USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -In April 2016, Obama announced that Tubman would be replacing Andrew Jackson on the $20 and that Jackson would be moved into a scene of the White House on the reverse side.

Detailed explanation-2: -The idea to replace Andrew Jackson, who had owned slaves and caused the forced removal of Native Americans through the Indian Removal Act, came from an 11-year-old girl who wrote a letter to President Obama in 2014.

Detailed explanation-3: -Tubman replace Andrew Jackson as the face of the $20 note was set in motion in 2016 by the Treasury secretary at the time, Jacob Lew.

Detailed explanation-4: -The deadline for a new $20 bill is still 2030, which was put in place by an anti-counterfeit committee in 2013, and does not reflect the sense of urgency felt by Tubman’s family.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Obama administration started the project to put Tubman on the $20 bill in 2016 and hoped the redesigned bill would be unveiled in 2020. Then-presidential candidate Donald Trump called the move an example of “pure political correctness, ” and after he was elected president, his administration scrapped the plan.