Many people know that the dollars depicts prominent presidents and statesmen of the United States, but not everyone knows exactly which people are immortalized in the American currency. Most dollar bills were designed and approved in 1928 and have not changed much since then.
Instructions
Step 1
The one-dollar bill depicts George Washington - the first president of the United States, who held this post from 1789 to 1797, a prominent figure in the first American bourgeois revolution, the commander-in-chief of the army during the War of Independence. Washington was distinguished by an extraordinary honesty in dealing with people. The same president is also depicted on the 25 cent coin.
Step 2
The $ 2 note depicts the third president, Thomas Jefferson. He was awarded this honor as an active leader of the first American bourgeois revolution, an outstanding politician, diplomat and philosopher. He was one of the first to develop the doctrine of the separation of church and state. By the way, the same person is immortalized on 5-cent coins.
Step 3
The 5-dollar bill features a portrait of the 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln, during whose reign slavery was abolished in America and blacks were freed. Despite the fact that African Americans acquired equal rights with whites only in the second half of the 20th century, the process of their liberation began under Lincoln. In addition, during the Civil War of 1861-1865, it was Lincoln who directly led the Confederate troops and led them to victory. His portrait also flaunts on coins in denominations of 1 cent.
Step 4
The 10-dollar bill bears the image of Alexander Hamilton, the first US Treasury Secretary, a prominent statesman, ideologist and leader of the Federalist Party, who stood at the origins of its creation. Developed a program for the accelerated commercial and industrial development of the United States, the creator of the American national currency - the dollar.
Step 5
The $ 20 bill is adorned by the 7th President of the United States, Andrew Jackson, who, along with Hamilton, is considered the founding father of the dollar. Founder of the Democratic Party, first governor of Florida. Fun fact: Jackson was a staunch opponent of paper money and the National Bank. Now the $ 20 bill with his portrait is the most counterfeited one. Although in different years his portrait was printed on bills of 5, 10, 50, 1000 and 10,000 dollars.
Step 6
The $ 50 bill carries a portrait of Willis Grant, the 18th President of the United States, Civil War hero, political and military leader. During the Civil War in the United States, he commanded the troops of the northerners, and rose to the rank of army general. In 2005, the idea was born to replace Grant on this bill with the image of Ronald Reagan, but for various reasons the idea never materialized.
Step 7
The $ 100 banknote features a portrait of Benjamin Franklin, a Revolutionary War leader, scholar, publicist, journalist, publisher and politician. Franklin is the only US statesman whose signature is on the three most famous documents in America - the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Versailles Peace Treaty of 1783. By the way, Benjamin Franklin became the first American admitted to the Russian Academy of Sciences as a foreign member.
