White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki announced that the Treasury Department had taken steps

to resume efforts to feature the American civil rights and political activist

The late, Harriet Tubmanon the $20 bill.

With this decision, the Black woman will replace the seventh president

To her country, Andrew Jacksonwhose portrait remained on the $20 bill

Since But who is Harriet Tubman؟

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Who Was Harriet Tubman?

Was born Harriet Tubman, in 1822 in Maryland State In America named Araminta Ross before changing

her name to Harriet after her marriage in 1844, making her mark among the fighters against slavery

In letters of gold.

Harriet TubmanA Black woman, she was enslaved by a plantation owner in her homeland before

escaping to Pennsylvania in 1849. Over the next 11 years, she helped 70 people who had been

enslaved escape.

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Harriet Tubman: A Spy During the American Civil War

And she worked Harriet TubmanAccording to press reports, she served as a nurse, scout, and cook in the American Army

The American, during The Civil War In her country, and she also provided intelligence information, to be described as

“The Spy”, before becoming the first female ever to lead an armed attack during the Civil War

After buying land in her home country, the African American woman returned there after the war, which lasted from

1861 to 1865, to care for and protect many people, including her family.

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Harriet Tubman and Her Work for Women’s Rights

And it was not limited Harriet Tubman’s struggle To the emancipation of slaves until the order was cancelled, but rather

Defended Tubman Also for women's right to vote, and she also worked side by side with

Other women’s rights activists.

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Harriet Tubman’s Death

And suffered Harriet Tubman, from a severe head injury after a heavy piece of metal was thrown at her

another enslaved person, leaving her with chronic headaches, episodes of hypersomnia, and bouts of hallucinations and visions

This affected her, and she suffered from persistent headaches before she died in

1913, at the age of 91, from pneumonia.

And she was Harriet Tubman She was deeply involved later in her life with church life and donated

On the land it owned, where a home for older adults was to be built and cared for.

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Obama and the plan to put Tubman’s portrait on the $20 bill

And the administration of the former President of the United States, Barack Obama Plans to replace the picture of

The deceased Harriet Tubman Instead of the seventh US President Andrew Jackson Who had crises

over slavery.

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Donald Trump opposes putting Harriet Tubman’s portrait on the $20 bill

Which is the plan rejected by the former US President, Donald Trumpinstead, he put up a portrait of the president

the seventh U.S. president, Andrew Jackson, in the Oval Office—the official office of the U.S. president

The American created in 1909 as part of the expansion works of the West Wing of the White House 

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Joe Biden supports the idea of putting Harriet Tubman’s portrait on the $20 bill

This is the idea that came back again with the administration of the current US President, Joe Biden،

To become Harriet Tubman If that happens, the first African-American figure to be honored

by having her portrait on currency, making her the first woman to have her image printed on U.S. banknotes in more than

From 100 years.

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Why was the $20 bill chosen for Harriet Tubman’s portrait?

Press reports indicate that the $20 bill had a story with Harriet Tubman And approved for her

In 1899, her country’s lawmakers granted her a military pension in recognition of her role with the army during the war

the American Civil War, worth $20. This is why the $20 denomination was chosen to feature the portrait of

the late activist.