Which Woman Should Be on the 10 Dollar Bill?

The unsolvable question of “which woman should be on the 10 dollar bill?” has been a hot topic in our nation for the past several months. From GOP candidates to pageant queens, this has been a huge to-do. 

 

 

Now of course there’s no right or wrong answer to which woman should be on the 10 dollar bill, but there have been some pretty outlandish answers to this question i.e. Ellen Degeneres, Mother Teresa, Michelle Obama, Margaret Thatcher, and Mike Huckabee’s wife Janet Huckabee. 

 

 

Because we are dealing with American currency, it seems fitting that the woman placed on the 10 dollar bill should be an American. Now, as much as I love Mother Teresa or the Iron Lady, I couldn’t place them on a 10 dollar.

 

Also, I think that placing an American woman from our history is the best option. Why? Because choosing living people can be a dangerous decision filled with more controversy than the deflate-gate scandal. 

Below I’ve compiled a list of the top five women who I think would best replace dear Alexander Hamilton. 

 

 

 

 

When I first heard about this question, she was the first woman who popped into my head. Elizabeth headed the women’s suffragist movement along with Susan B. Anthony in the late 19th century. She IS the reason we are even having this debate! Because of her diligence to the movement and making it known that women deserved better than being considered property, she is the one who launched the women’s equality movement.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Several presidential candidates have stated that Rosa Parks would be a great candidate – even Trump! – and we can all agree! She refused to give up her seat to a white person when instructed to do so by the Montgomery busdriver. She had lived her life in segregation and had finally had enough. Her peaceful stance inspired, and continues to inspire, American courage and independence in all women.

 

 

 

 

 

Harriet is the legendary woman who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin. You’re probably thinking, what does that have to do with anything? Well, her novel focused on the abuse, slavery, and demoralization of African Americans in the 19th century south. President Lincoln later addressed her as the woman who started the Civil War because of the effect her bold novel had on the nation and its decision to fight for the abolition of slavery.

 

 

 

 

 

How can you find a more American woman than Betsy Ross? She hand-stitched the first American flag after George Washington asked her to. Not only that, but she managed her own upholstery business throughout the Revolutionary war and beyond (ushistory). She was a self-sufficient, talented, and independent woman. She obviously makes a great candidate!

 

 

 

 

Eleanor Roosevelt was the first activist First Lady. When her husband, FDR, contracted polio, she stepped up to the plate in political affairs. She also had her own newspaper column, wrote several books, and, following her husband’s death, became a member of the United Nations and headed other organizations. Although others disapproved of her and her activism at the time, she now is a hero to women everywhere (whitehouse). What an astounding woman!

 

Of course there are so many other women which could be featured on the ten dollar bill – Lucretia Mott, the Grimke sisters, and Maya Angelou to name a few. Hopefully one of these women will be selected and resting in our wallets sometime in the near future!