Jackson owned a couple of hundred slaves and grew cotton. That was BIG money back then.
Jackson, Hoover, Madison, Jefferson, ESPECIALLY Jackson, I had no clue.
how do you guys know this stuff off of the top of your head?!
Jackson owned a couple of hundred slaves and grew cotton. That was BIG money back then.
Some comes from remembering histories that I’ve read and some is cheating with google. I try to hold the making-stuff-up part to a minimum unless I get lazy.
Washington was one of the largest landowners and slave holders of his day. He also married a rich widow.
Jefferson and Madison were members of that same Virginia gentry, although Jefferson wasn’t nearly as good with managing his money.
Jackson was a plantation owner.
The Roosevelts belonged to a prominent family dating back to when New York was New Amsterdam.
Hoover had been an immensely successful mining engineer.
Jack Kennedy’s father created the family fortune by bootlegging Cutty Sark whiskey and stock market manipulation. They were something like the 6th richest family in the US when JFK was elected.