who were wheat barons in america?
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The wheat Barons of America were the big farmers who had 2,000 to 3,000 acres of land under their control individually.
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- The wheat barons had large lands around the Great Plains where new areas were being plowed to extend the cultivation of wheat.
- There was a major expansion in the production of wheat around the nineteenth century in America.
- The increase in population in the urban areas led to an increase in export markets and the spread of railway networks made it easy for the wheat grains to be transported.
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Wheat barons were actually big farmers who started growing wheat on a huge scale, that is, they controlled nearly 2000-3000 acres of land in the Great Plains of the US from the start of 20th century.
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- The US govt. had adopted a policy wherein they had driven out the Native Americans to make way for White settlers to expand across the nation and the white settlers moved to many places, particularly to the Mississippi Valley (the Great Plains) from 1820-1850.
- The Great Plains which was once a natural wilderness was replaced with cultivated field of wheat and corn. The Great Plains became a key producer of wheat and the product of wheat rose in the US to meet the increasing requirements the urban populace and the export market.
- Furthermore the development of railways contributed to this boom and helped in transporting wheat from the Great Plains to the ports on the eastern coast. Big farmers or wheat baron took complete advantage of the 1st World War when supply of wheat to Europe was stopped by Russia.
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