What did these men all have in common, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Andrew Carnegie, Jay Gould and John D. Rockefeller

It is said that those 4 are supposedly “ the men who built America”

In the next 50 years, Cornelius Vanderbilt, John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, J.P. Morgan and Henry Ford became engines of capitalism, building transportation, oil, steel, financial industry, and automobile manufacturing in a way that changed the world, and making the United States a world power

In the midwest because it has more moderate climate than the north or south west which makes farming far easier.