Ya got the wrong denomination. The push was for replacing Andrew Jackson on the twenty. I still stand by my opinion from this prior thread. Aunt Jemima is no joke. She is a classic American icon.
The suprize is that it is the $10 and not the $20. I thought Jackson, the enemy of the idea of a national bank, was toast, not Hamilton, the one person who thought a national bank was very important to the growth of the country.
<< <i>WASHINGTON — A woman will appear on the $10 bill beginning in 2020, the Treasury Department said Wednesday.
Just which woman is up to you.
Legally, the decision belongs to Jack Lew, but the Treasury secretary said he's seeking public input on which female historical figure should appear on U.S. paper currency for the first time in 119 years.
"We're going to spend a lot of time this summer listening to people," Lew said. A decision could come this fall.
But even then, it will take nearly five years for the new bill to see circulation. That's because of the intricate planning for a redesign that will incorporate new anti-counterfeit measures and tactile features for the blind.
Even then, Alexander Hamilton isn't going away. The first Treasury secretary played a leading role in developing the nation's financial system, and has been on the $10 since 1928. And there he'll remain, either on the reverse side or in a separate series of bills. Also, the 1.9 billion $10 bills now in circulation will likely last another 10 years.
The move spares Andrew Jackson, the 19th century Democrat who occupies the $20 bill. An online petition earlier this year urged the administration to replace Jackson with abolitionist Harriet Tubman by 2020, the 100th anniversary of the constitutional amendment giving women the right to vote. But Lew said the primary consideration was the security of the currency — and the $10 bill was next in line for an upgrade.
Lew said the planning began even before he arrived at Treasury in 2013. President Obama endorsed the idea for a woman on paper currency last year, calling it "a pretty good idea,"
No woman has appeared on new paper currency since Martha Washington on a $1 silver note until 1896. Pocahontas was first, gracing a $20 note beginning in 1865.
By law, no living person may appear on a bill, and George Washington must always remain on the $1. >>
<< <i>The next generation of currency will revolve around the theme of democracy. The first note, the new $10, will feature a notable woman. >>
Sounds like the leading candidates will be Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth C. Stanton.... I'd rather see a different theme, but sounds like it's too late. Anthony and Stanton helped make progress, but it was more about equality. Vs. something that advanced everyone, like peace (atom bomb). Or scientific / medical advances. Equality (or progress towards it) is a good thing, though.
It is the usual garbage from Washington. Hamilton was a major prime mover in the founding of our monetary system and should appear on some coin or piece of paper money. But since we don't care about out history any more, we will put a PC picture on the $10 instead.
I was okay with replacing Jackson. He was an overrated president. But since he was a prime mover in making the Democrat Party strong in the 19th century, he gets to stay.
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<< <i>The suprize is that it is the $10 and not the $20. I thought Jackson, the enemy of the idea of a national bank, was toast, not Hamilton, the one person who thought a national bank was very important to the growth of the country. >>
The Treasury's original idea was to put a woman on a bill in the year 2020, the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, which rightfully gave women the right to vote.
The popular media and people on the Interwebz decided that a $20 bill would be the perfect vehicle to use for this in 2020, but the Treasury never said which denomination was being considered. The same people then launched a not-unreasonable attack on Jackson for his execution of the Second Bank of the United States and the atrocities he committed upon Native Americans.
I suspect that Hamilton was the odd man out because he was never a President, and the other non-President, Franklin, is too revered to replace.
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The woman who should be on the $10 bill doesn't have a snowball's chance because of truthful remarks she made about men who lived long ago who were supposed to be holy.To be consistent,BEP would need to take "IN GOD WE TRUST" off the note with her on it.We all know that isn't going to happen.
My opinion,FWIW.
Hint: The woman's initials are ECS.ECS deserves to be on a piece of money,same as SBA.
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<< <i>Hint: The woman's initials are ECS.ECS deserves to be on a piece of money,same as SBA. >>
Why not just say Elizabeth Cady Stanton?
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<< <i>It is the usual garbage from Washington. Hamilton was a major prime mover in the founding of our monetary system and should appear on some coin or piece of paper money. But since we don't care about out history any more, we will put a PC picture on the $10 instead.
I was okay with replacing Jackson. He was an overrated president. But since he was a prime mover in making the Democrat Party strong in the 19th century, he gets to stay. >>
This is the first time I've seen someone advocate for more dead presidents on our money.
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>>>Hint: The woman's initials are ECS.ECS deserves to be on a piece of money,same as SBA.<<<
I don't know who ECS is, but the current design should be taken off the dollar and replaced with the "Miss Liberty" that was designed back in 1979 when someone chose that ugly SBA coin.
That would have made a really neat coin.....instead of that GAWD awful thing we have now.
<< <i>The suprize is that it is the $10 and not the $20. I thought Jackson, the enemy of the idea of a national bank, was toast, not Hamilton, the one person who thought a national bank was very important to the growth of the country. >>
Who would let real history get in the way of politics?
I'd like to see Sacajawea who is both a woman and an American Indian. She was a heroic historical figure who was instrumental in making the Lewis and Clark expedition a success.
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<< <i>I'd like to see Sacajawea who is both a woman and an American Indian. She was a heroic historical figure who was instrumental in making the Lewis and Clark expedition a success. >>
Excellent idea.
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<< <i>I'd like to see Sacajawea who is both a woman and an American Indian. She was a heroic historical figure who was instrumental in making the Lewis and Clark expedition a success. >>
I like this, too. Think of what they could do with the reverse of the note - a panoramic of the L&C expedition somewhere in Montana with Sac featured leading the way. Beats the heck out of some government building...
Won't happen as long as the Native American buck is till being made. You wouldn't think it should matter since dead presidents appear on both coin and currency, but I'm sure that's what argument will be used against the idea...
<< <i>they oughta put the HepKitty on the new $10. >>
That was my second choice.
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I'd like to see, before ANY other changes be made, that something be added to allow sight-impaired people to tell the difference between a $5 and a $20 and so on. Maybe that's "PC" too but the fact almost every other country in the world has visually impaired currency and we don't is asinine.
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<< <i>I like the "Miss Liberty" idea. PLEASE not a real person!! >>
The dead heads in Washington cant stop glorifying their progressive heros. I am confident they would put some real woman on it. Lofty symbols are just something that does not compute within their shallow minds. Besides, they probably feel that liberty is an overrated concept in our progressive era.
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I thought that some might be inspired to take a closer look at ECS and what she stood for if I be a little mysterious and use initials instead of full name of person who you have identified correctly as Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
Born on November 12, 1815, in Johnstown, New York, Elizabeth Cady Stanton was an abolitionist and leading figure of the early woman's movement. An eloquent writer, her Declaration of Sentiments was a revolutionary call for women's rights across a variety of spectrums. Stanton was the president of the National Woman Suffrage Association for 20 years and worked closely with Susan B. Anthony.
Women's rights activist, feminist, editor, and writer. Born on November 12, 1815, in Johnstown, New York. The daughter of a lawyer who made no secret of his preference for another son, she early showed her desire to excel in intellectual and other "male" spheres. She graduated from the Emma Willard's Troy Female Seminary in 1832 and then was drawn to the abolitionist, temperance, and women's rights movements through visits to the home of her cousin, the reformer Gerrit Smith.
In 1840 Elizabeth Cady Stanton married a reformer Henry Stanton (omitting “obey” from the marriage oath), and they went at once to the World's Anti-Slavery Convention in London, where she joined other women in objecting to their exclusion from the assembly. On returning to the United States, Elizabeth and Henry had seven children while he studied and practiced law, and eventually they settled in Seneca Falls, New York.
With Lucretia Mott and several other women, Elizabeth Cady Stanton held the famous Seneca Falls Convention in July 1848. At this meeting, the attendees drew up its “Declaration of Sentiments” and took the lead in proposing that women be granted the right to vote. She continued to write and lecture on women's rights and other reforms of the day. After meeting Susan B Anthony in the early 1850s, she was one of the leaders in promoting women's rights in general (such as divorce) and the right to vote in particular.
During the Civil War Elizabeth Cady Stanton concentrated her efforts on abolishing slavery, but afterwards she became even more outspoken in promoting women suffrage. In 1868, she worked with Susan B. Anthony on the Revolution, a militant weekly paper. The two then formed the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) in 1869. Stanton was the NWSA’s first president - a position she held until 1890. At that time the organization merged with another suffrage group to form the National American Woman Suffrage Association. Stanton served as the president of the new organization for two years.
As a part of her work on behalf of women’s rights, Elizabeth Cady Stanton often traveled to give lectures and speeches. She called for an amendment to the U.S. Constitution giving women the right to vote. Stanton also worked with Anthony on the first three volumes of the History of Woman Suffrage (1881–6). Matilda Joslyn Gage also worked with the pair on parts of the project.
Besides chronicling the history of the suffrage movement, Elizabeth Cady Stanton took on the role religion played in the struggle for equal rights for women. She had long argued that the Bible and organized religion played in denying women their full rights. With her daughter, Harriet Stanton Blatch, she published a critique, The Woman's Bible, which was published in two volumes. The first volume appeared in 1895 and the second in 1898. This brought considerable protest not only from expected religious quarters but from many in the woman suffrage movement.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton died on October 26, 1902. More so than many other women in that movement, she was able and willing to speak out on a wide spectrum of issues - from the primacy of legislatures over the courts and constitution, to women's right to ride bicycles - and she deserves to be recognized as one of the more remarkable individuals in American history.
<< <i>It is the usual garbage from Washington. Hamilton was a major prime mover in the founding of our monetary system and should appear on some coin or piece of paper money. But since we don't care about out history any more, we will put a PC picture on the $10 instead.
I was okay with replacing Jackson. He was an overrated president. But since he was a prime mover in making the Democrat Party strong in the 19th century, he gets to stay. >>
This is the first time I've seen someone advocate for more dead presidents on our money. >>
Hamilton was not a President of the United States. He was a secretary of the treasury during the Washington administration and Federalist Party leader, all be a less than ideal one.
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I think virtually everyone here agrees with you but the current administration wants a real woman on a US note. I have no problem with this if they pick someone that is historically significant and not controversial. It's funny that the first real woman that ever appeared on our money was a foreign monarch.
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<< <i>It is the usual garbage from Washington. Hamilton was a major prime mover in the founding of our monetary system and should appear on some coin or piece of paper money. But since we don't care about out history any more, we will put a PC picture on the $10 instead.
I was okay with replacing Jackson. He was an overrated president. But since he was a prime mover in making the Democrat Party strong in the 19th century, he gets to stay. >>
This is the first time I've seen someone advocate for more dead presidents on our money. >>
Hamilton was not a President of the United States. He was a secretary of the treasury during the Washington administration and Federalist Party leader, all be a less than ideal one. >>
I think the jowly, middle-aged men in powdered wigs in general are what people are tired of seeing on our coins and currency are what they're complaining about when they want to see Lady Liberty return.
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<< <i>It is the usual garbage from Washington. Hamilton was a major prime mover in the founding of our monetary system and should appear on some coin or piece of paper money. But since we don't care about out history any more, we will put a PC picture on the $10 instead.
I was okay with replacing Jackson. He was an overrated president. But since he was a prime mover in making the Democrat Party strong in the 19th century, he gets to stay. >>
This is the first time I've seen someone advocate for more dead presidents on our money. >>
Hamilton was not a President of the United States. He was a secretary of the treasury during the Washington administration and Federalist Party leader, all be a less than ideal one. >>
I think the jowly, middle-aged men in powdered wigs in general are what people are tired of seeing on our coins and currency are what they're complaining about when they want to see Lady Liberty return. >>
Well perhaps some people should gain some respect for the men and women who made this country great in its early days. U.S. history did not begin in 1876 or whatever the date it began for the PC crowd. If you study history you will find out what those people offered and gave up to make our country a success. Franklin was not kidding when he stated that, "We will either hang together or hand separately." You and I can respectfully disagree on this issue.
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<< <i> Well perhaps some people should gain some respect for the men and women who made this country great in its early days. U.S. history did not begin in 1876 or whatever the date it began for the PC crowd. If you study history you will find out what those people offered and gave up to make our country a success. Franklin was not kidding when he stated that, "We will either hang together or hand separately." You and I can respectfully disagree on this issue. >>
I'm well versed in American History. If I had my choice I'd put a surely looking bull on the front of the $10 bill. Plenty of obsolete notes featured cows and steer. A bull could symbolize the bull side of bulls and bears as well. Barring that, if it had to be a person/people, a group shot of great American inventors would be really cool. Eli Whitney, Edison, and the Wright Brothers comes to mind.
"I'll split the atom! I am the fifth dimension! I am the eighth wonder of the world!" -Gef the talking mongoose.
Well, probably not see any of these great American women since they don't fit into the current obsession with "correctness" but I'd vote for: Abigail Adams; Clara Barton; Elizabeth Blackwell; Harriet Tubman; Grace Hopper; Rachel Carson; Pearl S Buck; Emily Dickinson; Dorthea Dix. And there are others who will no doubt be by-passed. Hmmm, Rachel Carson might make it since she sort of started the whole "environmental revolution". Just my two cents.
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<< <i> Well perhaps some people should gain some respect for the men and women who made this country great in its early days. U.S. history did not begin in 1876 or whatever the date it began for the PC crowd. If you study history you will find out what those people offered and gave up to make our country a success. Franklin was not kidding when he stated that, "We will either hang together or hand separately." You and I can respectfully disagree on this issue. >>
I'm well versed in American History. If I had my choice I'd put a surely looking bull on the front of the $10 bill. Plenty of obsolete notes featured cows and steer. A bull could symbolize the bull side of bulls and bears as well. Barring that, if it had to be a person/people, a group shot of great American inventors would be really cool. Eli Whitney, Edison, and the Wright Brothers comes to mind. >>
Your idea of placing some private sector people on our currency has merit.
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Aunt Jemima is no joke. She is a classic American icon.
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We need to encourage those with influence.
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<< <i>I might be willing to bet it will be a woman of color. >>
I can say with great certainty she'll be green.
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<< <i>I might be willing to bet it will be a woman of color. >>
I can say with great certainty she'll be green. >>
touché
<< <i>We need to have a big push to put a woman on currency. In fact, the SAME woman on ALL currency. Her name is Liberty.
We need to encourage those with influence. >>
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<< <i>WASHINGTON — A woman will appear on the $10 bill beginning in 2020, the Treasury Department said Wednesday.
Just which woman is up to you.
Legally, the decision belongs to Jack Lew, but the Treasury secretary said he's seeking public input on which female historical figure should appear on U.S. paper currency for the first time in 119 years.
"We're going to spend a lot of time this summer listening to people," Lew said. A decision could come this fall.
But even then, it will take nearly five years for the new bill to see circulation. That's because of the intricate planning for a redesign that will incorporate new anti-counterfeit measures and tactile features for the blind.
Even then, Alexander Hamilton isn't going away. The first Treasury secretary played a leading role in developing the nation's financial system, and has been on the $10 since 1928. And there he'll remain, either on the reverse side or in a separate series of bills. Also, the 1.9 billion $10 bills now in circulation will likely last another 10 years.
The move spares Andrew Jackson, the 19th century Democrat who occupies the $20 bill. An online petition earlier this year urged the administration to replace Jackson with abolitionist Harriet Tubman by 2020, the 100th anniversary of the constitutional amendment giving women the right to vote. But Lew said the primary consideration was the security of the currency — and the $10 bill was next in line for an upgrade.
Lew said the planning began even before he arrived at Treasury in 2013. President Obama endorsed the idea for a woman on paper currency last year, calling it "a pretty good idea,"
No woman has appeared on new paper currency since Martha Washington on a $1 silver note until 1896. Pocahontas was first, gracing a $20 note beginning in 1865.
By law, no living person may appear on a bill, and George Washington must always remain on the $1. >>
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http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2015/06/17/woman-on-10-bill-alexander-hamilton-jack-lew/28882687/
Link from Capt. Henway on other thread:
https://www.thenew10.treasury.gov/
<< <i>The next generation of currency will revolve around the theme of democracy. The first note, the new $10, will feature a notable woman. >>
Sounds like the leading candidates will be Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth C. Stanton....
I'd rather see a different theme, but sounds like it's too late.
Anthony and Stanton helped make progress, but it was more about equality. Vs. something that advanced everyone, like peace (atom bomb). Or scientific / medical advances.
Equality (or progress towards it) is a good thing, though.
Need I say more?
There's a 99% they'll screw this up and a 1% it will be executed well.
I was okay with replacing Jackson. He was an overrated president. But since he was a prime mover in making the Democrat Party strong in the 19th century, he gets to stay.
<< <i>It will be Hillary Clinton! >>
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<< <i>Probably Bru.. Caitlyn Jenner. >>
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<< <i>Probably Bru.. Caitlyn Jenner. >>
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<< <i>The suprize is that it is the $10 and not the $20. I thought Jackson, the enemy of the idea of a national bank, was toast, not Hamilton, the one person who thought a national bank was very important to the growth of the country. >>
The Treasury's original idea was to put a woman on a bill in the year 2020, the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, which rightfully gave women the right to vote.
The popular media and people on the Interwebz decided that a $20 bill would be the perfect vehicle to use for this in 2020, but the Treasury never said which denomination was being considered. The same people then launched a not-unreasonable attack on Jackson for his execution of the Second Bank of the United States and the atrocities he committed upon Native Americans.
I suspect that Hamilton was the odd man out because he was never a President, and the other non-President, Franklin, is too revered to replace.
TD
My opinion,FWIW.
Hint: The woman's initials are ECS.ECS deserves to be on a piece of money,same as SBA.
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<< <i>Hint: The woman's initials are ECS.ECS deserves to be on a piece of money,same as SBA. >>
Why not just say Elizabeth Cady Stanton?
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<< <i>It is the usual garbage from Washington. Hamilton was a major prime mover in the founding of our monetary system and should appear on some coin or piece of paper money. But since we don't care about out history any more, we will put a PC picture on the $10 instead.
I was okay with replacing Jackson. He was an overrated president. But since he was a prime mover in making the Democrat Party strong in the 19th century, he gets to stay. >>
This is the first time I've seen someone advocate for more dead presidents on our money.
I don't know who ECS is, but the current design should be taken off the dollar and replaced with the "Miss Liberty" that was designed back in 1979 when someone chose that ugly SBA coin.
That would have made a really neat coin.....instead of that GAWD awful thing we have now.
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<< <i>The suprize is that it is the $10 and not the $20. I thought Jackson, the enemy of the idea of a national bank, was toast, not Hamilton, the one person who thought a national bank was very important to the growth of the country. >>
Who would let real history get in the way of politics?
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<< <i>I'd like to see Sacajawea who is both a woman and an American Indian. She was a heroic historical figure who was instrumental in making the Lewis and Clark expedition a success. >>
Excellent idea.
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<< <i>I'd like to see Sacajawea who is both a woman and an American Indian. She was a heroic historical figure who was instrumental in making the Lewis and Clark expedition a success. >>
I like this, too. Think of what they could do with the reverse of the note - a panoramic of the L&C expedition somewhere in Montana with Sac featured leading the way. Beats the heck out of some government building...
Won't happen as long as the Native American buck is till being made. You wouldn't think it should matter since dead presidents appear on both coin and currency, but I'm sure that's what argument will be used against the idea...
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<< <i>they oughta put the HepKitty on the new $10. >>
That was my second choice.
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<< <i>I like the "Miss Liberty" idea.
The dead heads in Washington cant stop glorifying their progressive heros. I am confident they would put some real woman on it. Lofty symbols are just something that does not compute within their shallow minds. Besides, they probably feel that liberty is an overrated concept in our progressive era.
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<< <i>Anyone want to lay odds on Eleanor Roosevelt?
She would comply with the "gotta be homely" rule.
I thought that some might be inspired to take a closer look at ECS and what she stood for if I be a little mysterious and use initials instead of full name of person who you have identified correctly as Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
Born on November 12, 1815, in Johnstown, New York, Elizabeth Cady Stanton was an abolitionist and leading figure of the early woman's movement. An eloquent writer, her Declaration of Sentiments was a revolutionary call for women's rights across a variety of spectrums. Stanton was the president of the National Woman Suffrage Association for 20 years and worked closely with Susan B. Anthony.
Women's rights activist, feminist, editor, and writer. Born on November 12, 1815, in Johnstown, New York. The daughter of a lawyer who made no secret of his preference for another son, she early showed her desire to excel in intellectual and other "male" spheres. She graduated from the Emma Willard's Troy Female Seminary in 1832 and then was drawn to the abolitionist, temperance, and women's rights movements through visits to the home of her cousin, the reformer Gerrit Smith.
In 1840 Elizabeth Cady Stanton married a reformer Henry Stanton (omitting “obey” from the marriage oath), and they went at once to the World's Anti-Slavery Convention in London, where she joined other women in objecting to their exclusion from the assembly. On returning to the United States, Elizabeth and Henry had seven children while he studied and practiced law, and eventually they settled in Seneca Falls, New York.
With Lucretia Mott and several other women, Elizabeth Cady Stanton held the famous Seneca Falls Convention in July 1848. At this meeting, the attendees drew up its “Declaration of Sentiments” and took the lead in proposing that women be granted the right to vote. She continued to write and lecture on women's rights and other reforms of the day. After meeting Susan B Anthony in the early 1850s, she was one of the leaders in promoting women's rights in general (such as divorce) and the right to vote in particular.
During the Civil War Elizabeth Cady Stanton concentrated her efforts on abolishing slavery, but afterwards she became even more outspoken in promoting women suffrage. In 1868, she worked with Susan B. Anthony on the Revolution, a militant weekly paper. The two then formed the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) in 1869. Stanton was the NWSA’s first president - a position she held until 1890. At that time the organization merged with another suffrage group to form the National American Woman Suffrage Association. Stanton served as the president of the new organization for two years.
As a part of her work on behalf of women’s rights, Elizabeth Cady Stanton often traveled to give lectures and speeches. She called for an amendment to the U.S. Constitution giving women the right to vote. Stanton also worked with Anthony on the first three volumes of the History of Woman Suffrage (1881–6). Matilda Joslyn Gage also worked with the pair on parts of the project.
Besides chronicling the history of the suffrage movement, Elizabeth Cady Stanton took on the role religion played in the struggle for equal rights for women. She had long argued that the Bible and organized religion played in denying women their full rights. With her daughter, Harriet Stanton Blatch, she published a critique, The Woman's Bible, which was published in two volumes. The first volume appeared in 1895 and the second in 1898. This brought considerable protest not only from expected religious quarters but from many in the woman suffrage movement.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton died on October 26, 1902. More so than many other women in that movement, she was able and willing to speak out on a wide spectrum of issues - from the primacy of legislatures over the courts and constitution, to women's right to ride bicycles - and she deserves to be recognized as one of the more remarkable individuals in American history.
biography.com-Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Speaking out on women's right to ride bicycles alone should earn ECS recognition on the $10 bill in my book.
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<< <i>It is the usual garbage from Washington. Hamilton was a major prime mover in the founding of our monetary system and should appear on some coin or piece of paper money. But since we don't care about out history any more, we will put a PC picture on the $10 instead.
I was okay with replacing Jackson. He was an overrated president. But since he was a prime mover in making the Democrat Party strong in the 19th century, he gets to stay. >>
This is the first time I've seen someone advocate for more dead presidents on our money.
Hamilton was not a President of the United States. He was a secretary of the treasury during the Washington administration and Federalist Party leader, all be a less than ideal one.
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I think virtually everyone here agrees with you but the current administration wants a real woman on a US note. I have no problem with this if they pick someone that is historically significant and not controversial. It's funny that the first real woman that ever appeared on our money was a foreign monarch.
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<< <i>It is the usual garbage from Washington. Hamilton was a major prime mover in the founding of our monetary system and should appear on some coin or piece of paper money. But since we don't care about out history any more, we will put a PC picture on the $10 instead.
I was okay with replacing Jackson. He was an overrated president. But since he was a prime mover in making the Democrat Party strong in the 19th century, he gets to stay. >>
This is the first time I've seen someone advocate for more dead presidents on our money.
Hamilton was not a President of the United States. He was a secretary of the treasury during the Washington administration and Federalist Party leader, all be a less than ideal one. >>
I think the jowly, middle-aged men in powdered wigs in general are what people are tired of seeing on our coins and currency are what they're complaining about when they want to see Lady Liberty return.
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<< <i>It is the usual garbage from Washington. Hamilton was a major prime mover in the founding of our monetary system and should appear on some coin or piece of paper money. But since we don't care about out history any more, we will put a PC picture on the $10 instead.
I was okay with replacing Jackson. He was an overrated president. But since he was a prime mover in making the Democrat Party strong in the 19th century, he gets to stay. >>
This is the first time I've seen someone advocate for more dead presidents on our money.
Hamilton was not a President of the United States. He was a secretary of the treasury during the Washington administration and Federalist Party leader, all be a less than ideal one. >>
I think the jowly, middle-aged men in powdered wigs in general are what people are tired of seeing on our coins and currency are what they're complaining about when they want to see Lady Liberty return. >>
Well perhaps some people should gain some respect for the men and women who made this country great in its early days. U.S. history did not begin in 1876 or whatever the date it began for the PC crowd. If you study history you will find out what those people offered and gave up to make our country a success. Franklin was not kidding when he stated that, "We will either hang together or hand separately." You and I can respectfully disagree on this issue.
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Well perhaps some people should gain some respect for the men and women who made this country great in its early days. U.S. history did not begin in 1876 or whatever the date it began for the PC crowd. If you study history you will find out what those people offered and gave up to make our country a success. Franklin was not kidding when he stated that, "We will either hang together or hand separately." You and I can respectfully disagree on this issue. >>
I'm well versed in American History. If I had my choice I'd put a surely looking bull on the front of the $10 bill. Plenty of obsolete notes featured cows and steer. A bull could symbolize the bull side of bulls and bears as well. Barring that, if it had to be a person/people, a group shot of great American inventors would be really cool. Eli Whitney, Edison, and the Wright Brothers comes to mind.
Abigail Adams; Clara Barton; Elizabeth Blackwell; Harriet Tubman; Grace Hopper; Rachel Carson; Pearl S Buck; Emily Dickinson; Dorthea Dix.
And there are others who will no doubt be by-passed.
Hmmm, Rachel Carson might make it since she sort of started the whole "environmental revolution".
Just my two cents.
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Well perhaps some people should gain some respect for the men and women who made this country great in its early days. U.S. history did not begin in 1876 or whatever the date it began for the PC crowd. If you study history you will find out what those people offered and gave up to make our country a success. Franklin was not kidding when he stated that, "We will either hang together or hand separately." You and I can respectfully disagree on this issue. >>
I'm well versed in American History. If I had my choice I'd put a surely looking bull on the front of the $10 bill. Plenty of obsolete notes featured cows and steer. A bull could symbolize the bull side of bulls and bears as well. Barring that, if it had to be a person/people, a group shot of great American inventors would be really cool. Eli Whitney, Edison, and the Wright Brothers comes to mind. >>
Your idea of placing some private sector people on our currency has merit.